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Sinossi
Alla vigilia della Grande guerra, Anton Hofmiller, ufficiale dell'esercito austro-ungarico, conosce Edith, figlia di un ricco aristocratico ungherese. La ragazza, affetta da paralisi, provoca in Anton un ambiguo senso di pietà che lo spinge a farle visita quasi tutti i giorni. Scambiando questo sentimento per amore, Edith, aiutata dal potere persuasivo del padre, convince Anton a chiederla in sposa. Pentito, ma schiacciato dal senso di colpa, il protagonista scivola in comportamenti sempre più incoerenti, mentre sul loro destino si profila l'ombra della tragedia. Stefan Zweig compose questo suo primo romanzo tra il 1936 e il 1938, anni cruciali di cui la storia fatale e drammatica tra Anton e Edith rispecchia, come in una profezia, il tumultuoso e inarrestabile crescendo europeo, la rovina dell'intelligenza e dei sentimenti che in poco tempo avrebbe travolto l'intero continente.
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- Pagine: 374
- Data di uscita: 30-06-2014
Recensioni
Did you enjoy Wes Anderson's film The Grand Hotel Budapest ? Did you become entranced—as I did—by its nostalgia for the Austro-Hungarian Empire in those moonlight days before the Great War? Beware of Pity (1939), the novel which inspired the film, was written by Stefan Zweig--in exile, in London—duri Leggi tutto
Truth in advertising: the title tells us exactly what this book is about. It’s set in Austria in peacetime in 1914 in the time leading up to WW I. A young cavalry officer is invited to a party at the home of the most wealthy family in the town he is stationed in. He sees his host’s daughter sitting Leggi tutto
حذار من الشفقة..تاني رواية طويلة أقرأها لزفايغ بعد روايته الرائعة ماري أنطوانيت.. قصة الرواية بتدور حول فتاة كسيحة أحبت رجلاً بكل جوراحها وهو لم يستطع أن يبادلها نفس الشعور ولكن في نفس الوقت كان يحاول أن يكون بجانبها ليدخل السعادة إلي قلبها وطبعا ليس حباً فيها ولكن شفقة عليها! إستطاع زفايغ إنه يوصف مش Leggi tutto
Zweig is a master of the novella, and his mastery shows in BEWARE OF PITY, which unfortunately is a novel. Were this 130 pages long, it would have been salvageable (not CHESS STORY level, but what is?), but the excitement of the Zweigian opening (an author, a stranger, a story within-a-story) began
Disclaimer: Despite whatever I say in the following review, and no matter how much I mock Beware of Pity , I did actually enjoy it. To a limited extent. Stefan Zweig is an enormous drama queen. Every emotion in his novel Beware of Pity is hyperbolic, neon-lit, hammy. His narrator doesn't feel anything Leggi tutto
- "حذار من الشفقة" في معرض الحب فقط.. فالشفقة في الحب هي كالكره تماماً بل اشد وقعاً وفتكاً بالنفس البشرية... - حينما يحب الإنسان (رجل كان او امرأة)، فإنه يحب بكل جوارحه، حتى ليتبدل الدم في عروقه حباً ويسكب هذا الشعور العنيف الغزير على الشخص الآخر... فإذا "صدمه" الآخر وكان حباً من جانب واحد، فإن غزارة Leggi tutto
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