又译《心灵的焦灼》和《永不安定的心》。奥地利作家斯蒂芬.茨威格的长篇小说,发表于1938年.小说主人公骑兵少尉霍夫米勒偶然认识了贵族地主的女儿艾迪特.艾迪特是个下肢瘫痪的残疾姑娘.霍夫米勒对姑娘的不幸遭遇深表同情.艾迪特接受了这种同情,并误认为是爱情,使自己也爱上了少尉.霍夫米勒发现艾迪特对自己的想法后,惊慌失措,因为他这种同情弱者的侠义中,丝毫没有爱情.烈性、刚强的艾迪特为了自己心爱的人,开始接受治疗.霍夫米勒面临艰难的选择,要么做出牺牲,与艾迪特结婚,要么拒绝姑娘的爱情,但这无疑是宣判了艾迪特的死刑.少尉在矛盾中起初答应同艾迪特订婚,后又十分后悔.艾迪特知道少尉悔约,自己又无康复之望时,痛不欲生,跳楼自杀,少尉亦抱恨终生.书中没有广阔的历史背景和复杂的故事情节,但作者运用心理分析和“内心独白”的手法,写出了人物激烈的内心斗争和变幻莫测的感情起伏,引人入胜. Also translated "spiritual anxiety" and "never a stable heart." Austrian writer Stefan. Zweig's novel, published in 1938. Hofmiller protagonist Cavalry lieutenant accidentally met the landlord's daughter, Edith aristocracy. Edith was a girl with disabilities lower limb paralysis. Hofmiller right sympathy for the girl's misfortune. Edith accepted this sympathy, and mistaken for love, to make himself falling in love with second lieutenant. Hofmiller found Edith, after their own thoughts, panic-stricken, because he in a chivalrous compassion for the weak of this, and no love. potent, indomitable Edith for their own loved one to begin treatment. Hofmiller faced with difficult choices, either to make sacrifices, and Edith married, or rejected the girl's love, this is only the death sentence of the IDT. lieutenant in the contradictory engagement initially agreed to cooperate with Edith, and later regretted. Edith knew lieutenant regret about his own nor hope of recovery, the you'd rather die, suicide, second lieutenant is also a gnawing regret for life. the book is not broad historical background and a complex story, but the authors the use of psychological analysis and the "inner monologue" approach, writing a character's inner struggle and fierce unpredictable emotional ups and downs, fascinating.