Like “Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. by Tara Isabella Burton For years, Beware of Pity was the most important book I’d never read. But Beware of Pity–Zweig’s only novel–was […] With Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven, Cedric Hardwicke, Gladys Cooper. "Since this seems to be the day for making wrong diagnoses . Directed by Maurice Elvey. ― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity. By Adam Kirsc h. January 4, 2009. Beware of Pity [Ungeduld des Herzens]. Translated by Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt. It was adapted into a 1946 film of the same title, directed by Maurice Elvey. Frontispiece portrait of Stefan Zweig. In Beware of Pity we have a hero who makes a habit of getting things wrong. Beware of Pity was written in Zweig's London exile in 1938, and although it is above all a psychological novel whose tragedy unfolds in the private realms, Zweig's humanistic perspective provides a commentary on the larger historical and political situation. . But however modern in his subject matter, Zweig was not what we call a modernist. Revised edition published in 2003. 3 likes. Save this story for later. Cover illustration by Massimo Kaufmann. Taking pity on her, he begins spending more and more time with her. Though he flourished in the Twenties and Thirties, his memoirs make no mention of T.S. tags: mitleid, ungeduld-des-herzens. I’d read other books by its author, Stefan Zweig: a melancholic Austrian Jew whose chronicles of pre-war Vienna filled me with an aimless nostalgia for Habsburgs I had never known. A new edition published by Pushkin Press in 2000. In Beware of Pity, what feels true are the scenes in which we are shown the futility of pity. This is a horrible lesson; it is also what makes the book radical and modern. I’d loved them all. share. Beware of Pity (German: Ungeduld des Herzens, literally The Heart's Impatience) is a 1939 novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.It was Zweig's longest work of fiction. After Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig was perhaps the most well-known and widely read author writing in German before the Nazi rule. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! They gradually become friends, and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. . Beware of Pity. Ungeduld des Herzens / Beware of Pity published in 1939, is a tense and claustrophobic account of a young man’s slide into a terrible situation, and his inability to extricate himself from it.It’s a devastating depiction of honour, love and betrayal, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the rise of anti-Semitism. No_Favorite. Beware Of Pity Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Hannah Arendt and the power of the impersonal. EMBED. A man asks a pretty young woman for a dance and discovers that she has been paralyzed in a fall from a horse and can't walk. 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