dú wáng xiān pèi xiān shēng suǒ zhù《 wén xué měi》 yī shū , shū zhōng suǒ yuán yǐn de yī gè cái liào gěi wǒ liú xià liǎo jí shēn de yìn xiàng : ào dì lì zhù míng zuò jiā sī dì fēn · cí wēi gé de xiǎo shuō《 jiù shū shāng mén dé 'ěr》 de zhù rén gōng mén dé 'ěr , shì yī gè yóu tài xuè tǒng de jiù shū shāng , tā shì shū chéng pǐ , jǐ shí nián rú yī rì , měi tiān cóng zǎo dào wǎn zuò zài tóng yī jiā kā fēi guǎn de tóng yī zhāng 'āng zàng de shí zhuō bàng , shēn zǐ qián hòu yáo huàng zhe , dī shēng yín sòng yī běn shū huò shì yī běn zá zhì。 jiù zài tā de shēn biān , dǎ dàn zǐ de rén chǎo chǎo rǎng rǎng , diàn huà líng zhèn zhèn zuò xiǎng , shì zhě bēn lái páo qù , tā yī gài háo wú gǎn jué。 shèn zhì , yòu yī cì , yī kuài shāo zhe de méi cóng huǒ lú lǐ diào zài lí tā zhǐ yòu liǎng bù yuǎn de dì bǎn shàng , bǎ dì bǎn shāo jiāo liǎo , mào qǐ de yān xūn dào tā shēn shàng , tā yě yǐ rán méi yòu fā jué , zhí dào yuǎn chù de gù kè xiù dào jiāo chòu ...

　　Stefan Zweig's Buchmendel (1929) tells the tragic story of an eccentric but brilliant book peddler Jacob Mendel (also Jakob Mendel) who spends his days trading in one of Vienna's many coffeehouses. With his encyclopaedic mind and devotion to literature, the Poland-born Russian-Jewish immigrant is not only tolerated but liked and admired by both the owner of his local Café Gluck and the cultured Viennese clients with whom he interacts in the pre-war period. In 1915, however, he is falsely accused of collaborating with Austria's enemies and is dispatched to a concentration camp. On his return, towards the end of the war, everything has changed. His mind no longer remembers, his eyes can no longer read, the café undergoes new, brittle ownership, and his clientele have disappeared. Jacob Mendel finally dies, destitute, incapacitated and forgotten.
　　
　　What initially reads as another of the many modest human dramas that Zweig made his speciality, this small tale actually has a far more panoramic sub-plot, for it is a metaphor of the Great War's impact on Viennese life and culture. It is also particularly interesting to the historian for understanding the strategies by which post-war writers re-imagined pre-war Vienna, how they conceptualised the war itself, and how memory and myth deeply influenced their conception of history.