Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig

'avoid Pity is considered the most interesting book i've ever read...a feverish, fascinating book' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph

The novel I'll really remember scanning this year is Stefan Zweig's frighteningly grasping avoid Pity, first posted in 1939 ... and area of the ongoing, valiant reprinting by Pushkin Press of Zweig's collected oeuvre; an intoxicating, morally trembling read about human obligations and an actual reminder of exactly what fiction can perform best' Ali Smith, TLS Book of the season 2008

'An unremittingly tight parable about psychological blackmail, this might be a book which converts every reader into a fanatic'Julie Kavanagh, Intelligent lifestyle (The Economist)

'Itis just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, exactly how is-it that I don't already know about any of it?' Wes Anderson

'The rediscovery for this extraordinary publisher could well be on a par with last year's refinding of this long-lost Stoner, by John Williams, and which likewise could pluck their title regarding a dirty obscurity.' Simon Winchester, Telegraph

'Zweig's solitary best work' the occasions

'Zweig's imaginary masterpiece' Guardian

'first and powerful'

In regards to the writer

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) came to be in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish household. He learned in Berlin and Vienna and was referred to as a poet and translator, after that as a biographer. Zweig travelled commonly, residing Salzburg amongst the conflicts, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown girl, Amok and anxiety.

In 1934, using rise of Nazism, he relocated to London, where he wrote his just book watch out for Pity. He later shifted to Bath, using British citizenship after the outbreak of Second World War. With all the autumn of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York, before deciding in Brazil, where in 1942 he along with his spouse were discovered lifeless in an apparent dual committing suicide.

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