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Title: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 1-901285-49-9 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Zweig
Comment: Besides two long and boring passages that, in my opinion, do not add anything to the main story, this book is Stefan Zweig's masterpiece.
The emotions, repressions, frustrations, fears, joy, expressions, gestures, are well studied and described by the author, with the most intimate and subtle details.
The most poignant scene is when she caressed his hand. He did not love her, just pitied her, but what he felt when she caressed his hand was stronger than making love to any woman he had ever desired before. The description of her caress - and of his emotion during that caress - is irrefutably the strongest in literature. A moment of pure bliss...
Rating: 5
Summary: ONE OF THE VERY BEST
Comment: "Beware of Pity" is a brilliant book by one of the world's great writers.
This fascinating "psychological" novel is reminiscent of "Rebecca" in the way the story unfolds slowly and then totally envelops the reader. I actually read it straight through the first time, had to miss the next day's work. I've loved it just as much with each reread.
Zweig writes beautifully. He demonstrates elegance, economy, subtlety. There is never a wasted word.
While you are at it, read his short story "The Royal Game."
These are two examples of fiction at its very best.
Rating: 5
Summary: Blind Compassion
Comment: The scenario is settled at the beginning of the XXth century, right before the outburst of WW I with the murder of the prince of Austria, an event subtly knitted to the action taking place in the novel.
25 years old lieutenant Hofmiller, protagonist and narrator, is the prototype of the young man who has never cared much about anything but his own career and who has taken everything for granted during his whole life. Being good hearted, he hasn't yet experienced a strong attachment to a woman, nor he had even been deeply loved by any.
He describes himself as a not very thoughtful or introspective person, whose only worries were related to his horses and his position in the army.... until he meets Edith Von Kekesfalva. She is the lamed daughter of a Jewish rich man who became an aristocrat by purchasing the nobility title and changing his name.
Due to a gaffe Hofmiller commits [inviting the girl for a dance] a dense and excruciating relationship between both starts. The author delves deep into all the intricacies such a bond entails and the situations which arise when pity rules human behavior and is entangled with sincere love. Although the book may not seem very engaging at the beginning, the interest grows as the tension increases between the characters, leading to the dramatic circumstances that trigger the wonderful end.
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Title: World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 0803252242 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 1964 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Royal Game & Other Stories by Stefan Zweig, Jill Sutcliffe ISBN: 0841914060 Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 1901285480 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Confusion : The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D. by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 1901285227 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Invisible Collection/Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul, Cedar ISBN: 1901285006 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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