Beware of Pity

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Beschreibung

<b>Stefan Zweig's tragic novel of guilt, yearning, and the danger of pity, which inspired Wes Anderson's <i>The Grand Budapest Hotel</i>. </b>"Original and powerful." --<i>The New York Times</i> The only novel Zweig--one of the most popular authors of the 20th century--completed and published during his lifetime, <i>Beware of Pity </i>is a heartrending tale of unequal affection, unintended consequences, and a world falling to pieces. In 1913, young second lieutenant Hofmiller discovers the terrible danger of pity. Stationed at the edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he is invited to a party by a rich local landowner, who also happens to have a pretty daughter. But when Hofmiller asks the girl to dance he unleashes a fatal chain of consequences. He had no idea she was lame, and finds himself in an agony of shamed embarrassment. So begins a series of visits, motivated by pity, which relieves his guilt but gives her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig's only full-length novel has inspired multiple stage adaptations and was the starting point for Wes Anderson's film <i>The Grand Budapest Hotel</i>. Unfolding in a breathless sweep from Hofmiller's initial mistake, it displays at full length all the psychological insight and emotional intensity known to readers of Zweig's bestselling novellas. A century after it was first written, <i>Beware of Pity</i> remains a devastating depiction of the betrayal of both honour and love, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the beginnings of the First World War.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781805330226

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 128 x 33 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Pushkin Press