Word: zweig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terse, lively, human, 367-page Washington biography, The Story of the Making of a Nation. In it Author Reinhardt compared General Washington to Field Marshal von Hindenburg, his all-time hero. Among the literary judges who picked the book were Scientist Albert Einstein, Authors Thomas Mann, Jacob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig. All are now dead or in exile...
BEWARE OF PITY-Stefan Zweig-Viking...
...also happens, with elaborate variations, in Beware of 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...
...Author Zweig's characters are often stiff, symbolic, vague, even dull. But their melo dramatic personal histories make Beware of Pity worth reading...
...went into self-imposed exile, but he never got out from under the shadow. On his travels he made friends with Stefan Zweig, Alfred Neumann, Franz Werfel, and wrote two first-class novels, Child of Our Time and The Age of the Fish. Last week the latter was published in English...