{"product_id":"beware-of-pity-paperback","title":"Beware of Pity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStefan Zweig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoan Acocella\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003ePhyllis Blewitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: \u003c\/b\u003e \"I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of \u003ci\u003eBeware of Pity\u003c\/i\u003e. I loved this first book. I also read the \u003ci\u003eThe Post-Office\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGirl\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Grand Budapest Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back.\"--Salman Rushdie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHofmiller, 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 invalid to health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTEPHAN ZWEIG\u003c\/b\u003e (1881-1942) spent his youth studying philosophy and the history of literature in Vienna and belonged to a pan-European cultural circle that included Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. 1n 1934, under National Socialism, Zweig fled Austria for England, where he authored several novels, short stories, and biographies. In 1941 Zweig and his second wife traveled to Brazil, where they both committed suicide. New York Review Books recently republished his novel, \u003ci\u003eChess Story, \u003c\/i\u003e in Fall 2005. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOAN ACOCELLA \u003c\/b\u003eis a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and contributes regularly to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Her latest books is \u003ci\u003eWilla Cather and the Politics of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 7.98 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987940704557,"sku":"9781590172001","price":20.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/QjNiSkxJNWZLbFBVc1BuUmZCb240dz09.webp?v=1776188370","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/beware-of-pity-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}