Beware of Pity
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- 398
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Editor’s note Stefan Zweig’s only completed novel, published in 1939 while he lived in exile in England. Anton Hofmiller, a young cavalry lieutenant in a garrison town, begins visiting Edith, a paralysed girl, out of pity, and cannot find a way out of the feelings his kindness creates. Its English title is Beware of Pity. Wes Anderson named Zweig’s books as the inspiration for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
About the book
Beware of Pity is a 1939 novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It was Zweig's longest work of fiction. It was adapted into a 1946 film of the same title, directed by Maurice Elvey.