Carefulness and obscurity in fiction

I've been reading Stefan Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday. Zweig is a writer from the inter-war period whose literary reputation has really gone up in the last ten years. I remember 5-10 years ago reading this article that was like, "Hey, there's this dude out there, Stefan Zweig. He wrote this story, 'The Royal Game,' that's a metaphor for the con…