Impatience of the heart

When young lieutenant Anton Hofmiller invites Edith, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, to dance, he has no idea that he has made a mistake: she is disabled and uses a wheelchair. He forms a connection with her out of pity, but Edith misinterprets these encounters and falls in love with him. Even though Hofmiller agrees to an engagement, he hides her from his companions out of shame, which has unintended repercussions... Stefan Zweig has written an amazing work on guilt and two types of compassion: sentimental and weak-minded sympathy vs unsentimental and creative compassion.<br/><br/>Biography<br/>Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born into a Jewish commercial family in Vienna. He created poetry, stories, plays, and essays, all of which were burned by the Nazis in 1933. He resided in Salzburg from 1919 until 1934, then moved to England and then to Brazil in 1941. His epic works, like his historical miniatures and biographical works, made him famous. He deliberately put up his life in Petrópolis, Brazil, on February 23, 1942.