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Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-OfficeGirl. The Grand Budapest Hotelhas elements that were sort of stolen from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to represent Zweig himself ?? our ??Author? character, played by Tom Wilkinson, and the theoretically fictionalised version of himself, played by Jude Law. But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes, is modelled significantly on Zweig as well."
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.
Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host??s lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invali… (mais)
I first learned of Stefan Zweig after reading the current edition of " Baron Bagge" by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, which contains letters between the two authors. I enjoyed this book and will read more by Zweig, but a warning. I read the Northwestern University Press edition and was halfway through the book when I read the back cover information. It gives away the climax of the book, which occurs only a few pages from the end! I was outraged that ANY publisher would do that. Shame on you Northwestern University Press! It marred my enjoyment of the book. ( )
En los albores de la Gran Guerra, el teniente Anton Hofmiller recibe una invitación para acudir al castillo del magnate húngaro Lajos von Kekesfalva, cuya hija, que sufre parálisis crónica, se enamora del joven oficial. Hofmiller, que sólo siente compasión por la joven Edith, decidirá ocultar sus verdaderos sentimientos y le hará tener esperanzas en una pronta recuperación. Llega incluso a prometerse con ella, pero no reconoce su noviazgo en público. Como un criminal en la oscuridad, Hofmiller se refugiará en la guerra, de donde regresará como un auténtico héroe.
I could not sleep because I could not stop thinking about how the main story starts off nested into another narrative which it never returns to. I’m not quite sure why this lack of symmetry bugged me. Maybe it’s symbolic of some deep effect the novel had on me that I otherwise cannot access. An honest narrator. ( )
Zweig's only completed novel, 'Beware of Pity' is a study of what happens when we let our weakness overpower us, and the terrible consequences that can befall those we show pity to without really meaning it with sincerity. A fine achievement, if a little long - ironic, given the common complaint that Zweig's novellas could do with being longer... ( )
9.5 Soldier in the Austro Hungarian Army in 1914 asks a wealthy girl to dance without realizing she is a paraplegic. He takes PITY on her and visits her daily. She falls in love with him. He has only PITY for her, and is very afraid what OTHERS will say. should he let PITY control his actions and he is very unhappy but she will be happy or should he let his true feelings be known, but she may commit suicide? what is our responsibility to others and to ourselves? ( )
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-OfficeGirl. The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that were sort of stolen from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to represent Zweig himself ?? our ??Author? character, played by Tom Wilkinson, and the theoretically fictionalised version of himself, played by Jude Law. But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes, is modelled significantly on Zweig as well."
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.
Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host??s lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invali
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