{"id":7934,"date":"2014-05-26T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:46:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:46:48","slug":"podcast-bildung-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-bildung-stories","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: George Prochnik &#8211; Bildung Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Memories: George Prochnik &#8211; Bildung Stories<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1526\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7934-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7934-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Zweig was immersed in the problem of the disjunction between our grand desires for the kind of life we dream we should be living and the actual circumscribed canvas on which we must operate.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/books\/authors\/stefan-zweig\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7938\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-bildung-stories\/attachment\/52660852\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/52660852.jpg?fit=676%2C1024\" data-orig-size=\"676,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Dieses Bild wurde auf badische-zeitung.de ver\\u00f6ffentlicht.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"52660852\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/52660852.jpg?fit=409%2C620\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7938\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/52660852.jpg?resize=200%2C303\" alt=\"52660852\" width=\"200\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/52660852.jpg?resize=290%2C440 290w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/52660852.jpg?resize=409%2C620 409w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/52660852.jpg?w=676 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>At his peak, Viennese author Stefan Zweig was one of the most widely read authors in the world. How did he and his wife end up in a double-suicide in a bungalow in Petropolis, Brazil? <a href=\"http:\/\/georgeprochnik.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Prochnik<\/a> joins us to talk about his new biography, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590516125\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590516125&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=FLQHJB3XYS6MFKRN\">The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1590516125\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Other Press). We discuss the\u00a0arc of Zweig&#8217;s exile, why Zweig remains important to our age\u00a0(both in his writing and in his character), how he lost his\u00a0belief in the power of <em>bildung<\/em>,\u00a0the fleetingness of fame and the accident of survival, the role of education in changing political dynamics, the contemporary revival of Viennese culture, the reason why Zweig fled New York City, and more!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think he felt that the more we have to produce official documents to indicate who we are, the more we are reduced to that strip of paper.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We also talk about our respective introductions to Zweig&#8217;s work, the ways that his final novella may be an allegory for Vienna, the danger of looking for clues to\u00a0Zweig&#8217;s suicide in his writing, and how he may have been the inspiration for Woody Allen&#8217;s <em>Zelig<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give it a listen<\/a>! Go pick up a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590516125\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590516125&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=FLQHJB3XYS6MFKRN\">The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1590516125\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>! And check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/14078780867\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my Zweig-shelf<\/a>!<br \/>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1527\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7934-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7934-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_20_-_Bildung_Stories.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-correction-of-taste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Dirda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-reading-maketh-a-full-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DG Myers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-slipping-the-noose-of-the-topical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phillip Lopate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-slippery-animal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Jay Friedman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-great-vengeance-and-furious-anger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thane Rosenbaum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?tag=podcast&amp;feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/georgeprochnik.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Prochnik<\/a>\u2019s essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous journals. He has taught English and American literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is editor-at-large for <em>Cabinet<\/em> magazine, and is also the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0767931211\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0767931211&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=T5XE76E2UYHSFZQY\">In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0767931211\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590511824\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590511824&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=B24PFGZQVSG4LWXV\">Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1590511824\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. He lives in New York City.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Brazil<em>\u00a0by The Coasters. The conversation was recorded at Mr. Prochnik&#8217;s home on a pair of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QWBM62\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001QWBM62\">Zoom H4n recorder<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001QWBM62\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. The intro and outro were recorded on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002VA464S\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002VA464S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue Yeti USB Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Mr. Prochnik\u00a0by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories: George Prochnik &#8211; Bildung Stories &#8220;Zweig was immersed in the problem of the disjunction between our grand desires for the kind of life we dream we should be living and the actual circumscribed canvas on which we must operate.&#8221; At his peak, Viennese author Stefan Zweig was one of the most widely read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-bildung-stories\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast: George Prochnik &#8211; Bildung Stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1183,17,20],"tags":[2615,426,1446,2616,1405,2613,154,2610,1223,2611,2618,2619,2614,1239,1194,2016,2617,2612],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-podcasts","category-politics-explicit","category-religion","tag-andre-aciman","tag-clive-james","tag-dostoevsky","tag-edwin-frank","tag-erasmus","tag-freud","tag-george-orwell","tag-george-prochnik","tag-gershom-scholem","tag-herzl","tag-joseph-frank","tag-knausgard","tag-malraux","tag-proust","tag-stefan-zweig","tag-susan-sontag","tag-wayne-kostenbaum","tag-zionism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/14208631924_3c343755ef_k.jpg?fit=2048%2C1354","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-23Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10311,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-216-george-prochnik","url_meta":{"origin":7934,"position":0},"title":"Episode 216 &#8211; George Prochnik","author":"Gil","date":"May 1, 2017","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 216: George Prochnik \"Scholem teaches us that the Jewish tradition is so capacious it could embrace its own subversion.\" George Prochnik returns to The Virtual Memories Show to talk about his new book, Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem (Other Press). 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