Impatience of the Heart

Stefan Zweig - Collection Penguin classics

352 pages, parution le 01/01/2016

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Résumé

Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled.

' The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph

'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!'

Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything burdening his soul? But when he reveals his story, it is not one of bravery but tragedy: a simple blunder at a dance from which disaster grows, ruining lives with his weak, foolish pity...

Impatience of the Heart is Stefan Zweig's greatest novel, fiercely capturing human emotions in all their subtleties and extremes - while Hofmiller, his unforgettable, naive creation, misunderstands everything, resulting in his downfall.

A new translation by Jonathan Katz

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna to a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. Recognition as a writer came early for Zweig; by the age of forty, he had already won literary fame. In 1934, with Nazism entrenched, Zweig left Austria for England, and became a British citizen in 1940. In 1941 he and his second wife went to Brazil, where they committed suicide. Zweig's best-known works of fiction are Beware of Pity (1939) and The Royal Game (1944), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation.

L'auteur - Stefan Zweig

Né à Vienne en 1881, fils d'un industriel, Stefan Zweig a pu étudier en toute liberté l'histoire, les belles-lettres et la philosophie. Grand humaniste, ami de Romain Rolland, d'Émile Verhaeren et de Sigmund Freud, il a exercé son talent dans tous les genres (traductions, poèmes, romans, pièces de théâtre) mais a surtout excellé dans l'art de la nouvelle (La Confusion des sentiments, Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme), l'essai et la biographie (Marie-Antoinette, Fouché, Magellan...). Désespéré par la montée du nazisme, il fuit l'Autriche en 1934, se réfugie en Angleterre puis aux États-Unis. En 1942, il se suicide avec sa femme à Petropolis, au Brésil.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Penguin
Auteur(s)	Stefan Zweig
Collection	Penguin classics
Parution	01/01/2016
Nb. de pages	352
Format	13 x 19
Couverture	Broché
Poids	280g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780141196411