Word: kekesfalvas
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Pity, first full-length novel of symbolist-minded, 57-year-old Austrian Biographer Stefan Zweig (Marie Antoinette). Told to Author Zweig as the "confession" of an Austrian War hero. Captain Hofmiller, it is a pre-War tragedy which came from Hofmiller's pity for beautiful, crippled Edith von Kekesfalva, daughter of an Austrian pseudo nobleman. Invited for the first time to the Kekesfalvas' big country estate, naïve young Hofmiller, un aware that Edith's fur robe covers withered legs, asks her to dance. She bursts into sobs, hysterical abuse. So begin Hof miller...
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