Beware of Pity
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0721NV7F4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 572 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from kindness and of honour poisoned by self-regard. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. Definitive translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell.. Beware of Pity has all the intensity and the formidable sense of torment and of character of the very best of Zweig's work. In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner
Alp Walker said A novel with a powerful and unusual theme. This is not an easy read, but it is a deep and meaningful one. It made me question many of my assumptions and ideas, and even now I am still trying to digest the novel's full range of meaning. It is told from a first-person perspective, and I like that since this tends to ensure that there is no omnipotent authorial imprint on the story. Instead, we are hurled into a world of uncertainties. The young protagonist, Hofmiller, is ripped from his cookie-cutter, military existence and is. "Great Story" according to Edward F. Weber. Herr Zweig in 19Great Story Herr Zweig in 1938 wrote a fascinating yarn about a nice young cavalry officer in the Austrian-Hungary military in 1913. While at a ball in the local schloss he unwittingly insults a young lady by inviting her to dance with him, not knowing that her legs are paralyzed. It sets her off into paroxyms of sobbing for which he feels responsible and for which his sense of pity compels him to atone by becoming her friend. She is the daughter of the wealthy man who owns the schloss and its . 8 wrote a fascinating yarn about a nice young cavalry officer in the Austrian-Hungary military in 191Great Story Herr Zweig in 1938 wrote a fascinating yarn about a nice young cavalry officer in the Austrian-Hungary military in 1913. While at a ball in the local schloss he unwittingly insults a young lady by inviting her to dance with him, not knowing that her legs are paralyzed. It sets her off into paroxyms of sobbing for which he feels responsible and for which his sense of pity compels him to atone by becoming her friend. She is the daughter of the wealthy man who owns the schloss and its . . While at a ball in the local schloss he unwittingly insults a young lady by inviting her to dance with him, not knowing that her legs are paralyzed. It sets her off into paroxyms of sobbing for which he feels responsible and for which his sense of pity compels him to atone by becoming her friend. She is the daughter of the wealthy man who owns the schloss and its . Brilliant psycho-drama set in the twilight of the Hapsburg Empire The greatness of this book can best be summarized by the fact that I knew how this book was going to end forty pages into it, but it was nonetheless a gripping narrative ----- I liken it to Anna Karenina, but 1/3 the length.The plot starts as tragicomedy - a simple social blunder by Subaltern Toni Hofmiller gradually grows to something that inextricably links him to the Kevesfalva family and their paraplegic daughter, Edith. Initially motivated by the desire to rectify his embarrass