Impatient Heart

Impatient Heart is the only novel of Stefan Zweig, whom we know especially through the biographies he wrote about imaginary and historical characters. This psychological novel by Zweig, who has a deep interest in Freud's teaching, is a masterpiece that explains what the feeling of pity can lead to and how it can drag people from conflict to conflict. The author talks about two types of feelings of pity:

"The first, emotional and weak one, is the impatience of a struggling heart to get rid of the pain and sadness resulting from the disasters experienced by someone else as quickly as possible. The other, the only real feeling of pity, is the non-emotional, but It is the feeling of pity that is creative, knows what it wants, and is determined to endure and endure patiently, to the best of one's ability, even beyond one's ability."

20. Impatient Heart, one of the cult books of the century, is a novel about the confusion of human emotions in the face of the horror of war.


Thin Cover:

Number of Pages: 437

Printing Year: 2016


e-Book:

Number of Pages: 315

Printing Year: 2006


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Can Yayınlari

Number of Pages: 437

First Print Year: 2006

Language: Turkish