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Author | : Imre Kertész |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307426491 |
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The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is “No.” It is how the novel’s narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier when she told him that she wanted one. The loss, longing and regret that haunt the years between those two “no”s give rise to one of the most eloquent meditations ever written on the Holocaust. As Kertesz’s narrator addresses the child he couldn’t bear to bring into the world he ushers readers into the labyrinth of his consciousness, dramatizing the paradoxes attendant on surviving the catastrophe of Auschwitz. Kaddish for the Unborn Child is a work of staggering power, lit by flashes of perverse wit and fueled by the energy of its wholly original voice. Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Author | : Imre Kertesz |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2004-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781417725137 |
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Author | : Seth Michelson |
Publisher | : Pudding House Publications |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781589987050 |
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Author | : David Birnbuam |
Publisher | : New Paradigm Matrix |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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When Allen Ginsberg famously began his idiosyncratic eulogy of his mother by asking the reader to imagine him “up all night, talking, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles,” he did not pause to explain what exactly this thing called Kaddish was or why he would have been reading it aloud in his mother’s memory. Nor did he need to: there is no Jewish prayer better known to the non-Jewish world than Kaddish, and the concept of saying Kaddish “for” someone has entered the American lexicon of cultural phrases known to all and used freely without the need to translate or explain. Neither Imre Kertesz’s Kaddish for an Unborn Child nor Leon Wieseltier’s 1998 bestseller Kaddish provides a translation or explanation on the dustjacket, for example, the assumption being that anyone cultured enough to want to read either book—and surely not only Jewish readers—would know what the word means and what its use as the title implies about the book’s content. Nor did Leonard Bernstein seem to feel the need for any explanation when he named his third symphony “Kaddish,” and left it at that.
Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2016-06-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1410350312 |
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A Study Guide for Imre Kertesz's "Kaddish for a Child Not Born," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author | : Louise Olga Vasvári |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781557535269 |
Download Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The work presented in the volume in fields of the humanities and social sciences is based on 1) the notion of the existence and the "describability" and analysis of a culture (including, e.g., history, literature, society, the arts, etc.) specific of/to the region designated as Central Europe, 2) the relevance of a field designated as Central European Holocaust studies, and 3) the relevance, in the study of culture, of the "comparative" and "contextual" approach designated as "comparative cultural studies." Papers in the volume are by scholars working in Holocaust Studies in Australia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Serbia, the United Kingdom, and the US.
Author | : Louise Olga Vasvári |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1557533962 |
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Author | : Imre Kertész |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Holocaust survivors |
ISBN | : 9780810111615 |
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This novel is a tale of identity and memory - the story of a middle-aged man taking stock of his life in the ever-present shadow of the Holocaust.
Author | : Imre Kertész |
Publisher | : Melville House |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1612193293 |
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Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling an epic story of the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. Fiasco as Imre Kertesz himself has said, "is fiction founded on reality"—a Kafka-like account that is surprisingly funny in its unrelentingly pessimistic clarity, of the Communist takeover of his homeland. Forced into the army and assigned to escort military prisoners, the protagonist decides to feign insanity to be released from duty. But meanwhile, life under the new regime is portrayed almost as an uninterrupted continuation of life in the Nazi concentration camps-which, in turn, is depicted as a continuation of the patriarchal dictatorship of joyless childhood. It is, in short, a searing extension of Kertesz' fundamental theme: the totalitarian experience seen as trauma not only for an individual but for the whole civilization—ours—that made Auschwitz possible.
Author | : Peter Stephan Jungk |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2009-03-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590512758 |
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Gustav Rubin, a fur dealer in Vienna, flies to New York to spend the summer with his wife and two young children in a lake house north of the city. When he arrives late at JFK, he is met by his opinionated, unrelenting mother, Rosa. They rent a car and set out for Lake Gilead. But Gustav loses his way, and son and mother end up on the wrong side of the river. Trying to find the right route north, they become trapped on the Tappan Zee Bridge in the traffic jam of all traffic jams– a truck transporting toxic chemicals has turned over–and Gustav and Mother remain gridlocked high above the Hudson River. Gustav begins to think of his beloved father, a renowned intellectual, now eleven months dead. Then, in a surprising, highly original twist worthy of Kafka, both Gustav and Mother see the body–"the colossal, golem-like fatherbody" – of Ludwig David Rubin floating naked in the waters below. Jungk gives a profound meditation on a Jewish family and its past, especially the lasting distorting effects on a son of a famous, vital father and a clinging, overwhelming mother, and of the differences between the generation of European intellectual refugees who arrived in the United States during the Second World War and the children of that generation.