Beware of Pity (Neterpeniye Serdtsa)

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer, critic, and author of numerous novellas and fictionalized biographies.

Zweig was born in Vienna into the family of a wealthy Jewish merchant who owned a textile manufactory. In the memoir The World of Yesterday, Zweig speaks with deliberate restraint about his childhood and adolescence. When he turns to the parental home, the gymnasium, and then the university, the writer consciously does not give free rein to emotion, emphasizing that at the beginning of his life everything was exactly the same as for other European intellectuals at the turn of the century.

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