Beware of Pity
| ავტორი | Stefan Zweig |
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Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig (Penguin Modern Classics) — Zweig’s only completed novel, and one of the masterpieces of European fiction. A young cavalry officer’s inability to be honest with a young woman who loves him initiates a tragedy of terrible inevitability — a book of complete psychological precision about the mechanics of self-deception and the suffering produced by weakness rather than cruelty. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.
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Stefan Zweig’s masterpiece explores the devastating consequences of well-intentioned dishonesty through Anton Hofmiller’s inability to disappoint those around him, creating a tragedy of psychological depth set against the backdrop of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s decline. This exploration of how weakness and pity can cause more suffering than cruelty is both a profound character study and a meditation on moral responsibility that remains strikingly relevant.
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Anton Hofmiller is a young cavalry officer in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire — well-meaning, decent, but profoundly weak in the specific way that produces more suffering than cruelty does: the weakness of someone who cannot bear to disappoint, and who will therefore make any promise, give any assurance, in order to delay the moment of discomfort. When he becomes entangled with Edith Kekesfalva, a young woman paralysed from childhood who falls in love with him, his inability to be honest initiates a tragedy of terrible inevitability.
Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity — his only completed novel — is one of the masterpieces of European fiction: a book that understands the mechanics of psychological self-deception with absolute precision, and that renders its consequences with the authority of someone who has watched the world his characters inhabited destroy itself. Written in 1939, as Zweig himself was in exile, it carries the weight of a civilisation in collapse.
Essential European literature — a novel of complete formal authority and devastating emotional power. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.
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| ავტორი | Stefan Zweig |
|---|---|
| გამომცემლობა | Penguin Modern Classics |
| გვერდების რაოდენობა | 432 |
| ISBN | 9780241678763 |
| ყდის ტიპი | რბილი ყდა |
| ენა | ინგლისური |
| ფორმატი | 198 x 129 mm |
