Beware of Pity | 
Zweig appreciation post 🥰 “In the 1920s and 1930s Stefan Zweig was an immensely popular writer, a man who had to barricade himself in his house in Salzburg in order to avoid the fans lurking around his property in the hope of waylaying him. According to his publisher, he was the most widely translated author in the world. Today, while he is still read in Germany and also in France, his name is barely known to the average Anglophone reader.” 💕
pick5⭐️ An absolute perfection from Zweig! I call this novel “the book of emotional conflicts” 😅 as Zweig shares his insights into human nature through the depiction of pity. I love how he describes the thoughts and feelings of the characters (especially Hofmiller) so comprehensibly. I wonder if he had a lively discussion with Freud on this topic 🥸
Taking a break from War and Peace, and started this book. I love Zweig 💕 and I‘m eager to find out what this book is all about. The title itself is intriguing
pickThis book! If you ever find yourself pitying someone - which is just another form of condescension (tbh) - stop and think about what you're doing. Better yet, read this book. Never has anyone explained so beautifully the true consequences of pity.
The characters are very well sketched - they evoke very strong emotions and you really feel the dread rising as the novel reaches its inevitable end.
A must read! Absolutely brilliant!
pickA young Austrian officer befriends a local millionaire and his family, but in particular the man's crippled daughter, Edith, for whom he feels sorry. The consequences are terrible.
But there is so much more to the story. As always, Zweigs‘ plot unfolds through things left unsaid, situations misread.
The only possible downside to this book is that it would be even more powerful if he‘d written it as a novella.
#Booked2019 #SoldiersStory
#WeeklyForecast 45/19
A new month means another 50 pages of Proust - like I‘ve been doing since 2017. This is the last book in the series but it‘ll take months to finish it.
I just started the tagged book. Zweig is becoming a favorite author.
Next will be a shorty for the #1001books list, The Glass Bees.
I guess that will be it for this week but just in case, I added the next one for the #ReadingUSA2019 challenge, We are Called to Rise.
Tomorrow is opening day! It is so close. I hope you are all excited for your new scary book(s) for Halloween. 🕷I want to open mine now!
Please comment below if you have still NOT received your 📦 or if you want to be an evil fairy godmother and send out replacement 📦 to those that did not get one. #AllHallowsReadSwap
#QuotsyJuly18 Day 18: When one perceives one‘s self with #Disgust, and not deserving of love, then life will be very sad indeed.
pickI have been particularly tardy with my book posts over the last few months. I finished this one long before Christmas but it‘s a great book. I enjoyed it for its creeping sense of dread and “OH NO YOU DIDN‘T” moments.
Just finished watching Beware of Pity. Absolutely incredible. So fraught and raw there were times I could hardly bear to watch. I only wish I spoke German so that I didn't need to rely on the subtitles. I recommend it to everyone. Here's that link again, just in case 😉 http://www.pushkinpress.com/beware-of-pity-watch-it-live/
If there are any #StefanZweig fans there's a link to Simon McBurney's sold out stage adaptation of Beware of Pity at the Barbican on the Pushkin Press website. It's only available until 26th February! I know what I'll be doing with my Saturday night. http://www.pushkinpress.com/beware-of-pity-watch-it-live/
pickI absolutely adored this book. It was dark, melancholy, beautiful, and deeply unsettling. Finished it over a week ago, and still thinking of it nearly everyday. I need to buy my own copy, since this is a book I'll definitely be rereading.
#Booktober - #creepycovers - This cover is kind of unsettling. I really like this book so far though. Looking forward to reading more Stefan Zweig.
pickRead this book in one of my book clubs last year and I liked it very much. A great period book that explores human feelings and how decisions based on them can change our lives and that of those around us drastically.
It's hot out and I plan on wrapping this one up this weekend. #StefanZweig
I've yet to read a Stefan Zweig book that didn't make me look at humanity differently, if only for a moment.
