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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting story and characters. What was kind of annoying, I think was supposed to annoy the reader. The protagonist over-analyzes everything! Very little happens in the course of the book, but the reader is fooled into thinking that this is some horrific drama because of his exaggerated inse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3004849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the more interesting aspects of this book include Zweig's very intricate language. Granted, I am reading a translation, but having read another of his work -Master Builders- I can see how there is a particular quality to his writing. Let's see if I can explain- Zweig will give a description-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32452184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's a novel in which hearts don't seem to beat.  Instead they creak like old planks of wood.  Passions run low and duties run high.  The main character finds himself caught in a predicament bound by manners, a sense of honor, and what he repeatedly calls his damnable pity.  The attempt to expiate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20111900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zweig's writing is full of psychoanalysis of his characters’ emotions, soul, and state of mind. He is always on the journey to finding out what controls his characters’ actions.<br/><br/>&quot;Beware of pity” novel is about a young Austrian officer, who attends a party at the house of the No...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11722672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this last year on the advice of a friend and was BLOWN away.  Zweig is hugely famous in the world, except for America.  He was a contemporary of Freud's and you can tell -- he's very into the psychology of human behavior.  The title refers to a spontaneous act of chivalry done to a crippled gir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40839367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book is a good psychological reading. Taking one through painful details of how pity can hold and seize a person, it analyzes too well how each pitiful reaction is conceived and exacted. The protagonist is faced repeatedly with moral choices, and he almost always shows a leaning towards...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22732326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that remains with you after the last page. Zweig manages to capture the reader's imagination with a story that basically has little plot and is character driven. Fascinating study of pity and compassion and the inherent dangers of holding an emotion which makes you feel better ,but de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40861935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Its a shame that no one has the patience to read this kind of intensely psychological work... nothing happens in the plot that would not feel right at home in actual reality -- its not fanciful or false in any way.  I think it was quite worth my time. -John]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps the best-known of Zweig's novels (though he called it &quot;Impatience of the Heart&quot;), it tells the story of a young officer in the Austrian army who one day, while attending a party, commits a social gaff by accidentally insulting the host's daughter, who is physically handicapped.  In...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24056264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[какво е това английско заглавие ... не знам<br/><br/>'нетърпеливо сърце' се нарича българското издание]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is like getting on a train, it starts out slow and comfortable but really starts to pick up speed as you go.  Towards the end the train is out of control and you can't get off.  Beautiful writing, incredibly descriptive narrative.  Quite brilliant.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I enjoyed Zweig's lofty writing, rich in emotions of the psychological state of his characters. His genius lies in demonstrating for me at least what a questionable assumption that human emotion as the most important factor in human interaction.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating and excruciating.  I read the 1982 Plume version, so I wonder what the NYRB version does differently, if anything.  There's a troubling anti-semitic bit in the middle.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Precise dissection of human motivation in the cultural and historical context of Austrohungarian empire in the period before WWI.  Psychoanalysis meets Mr Bean. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stefan Zweig was an amazing writer. ]]></body>
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