Montaigne - Stefan Zweig Crime Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the decadent partying of the jaded expats in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

and to savour

He feels like he hit the jackpot

but no longer - this book is awash with insight

Montaigne - Stefan Zweig Crime Scott Fitzgerald's The Great GatsbyHe who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.'Stefan Zweig was already an migr driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him make sense of his own life and his obsessions with personal freedom, with the sanctity of the individual. Through his writings on suicide, he would also,