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Laddar... A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary (urspr publ 1954; utgåvan 2006)av Anonymous
VerksinformationEn kvinna i Berlin : en sann berättelse : dagsboksanteckningar från den 20 april till den 22 juni 1945 av Marta Hillers (1954)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Quien quiera enterarse de lo que en realidad ocurrió en las postrimerías de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tendrá que preguntárselo a las mujeres. Y es que, entre las ruinas, los hombres demostraron ser el «sexo más débil». En este documento único no se ilustra lo singular sino lo que les tocó vivir a millones de mujeres: primero la supervivencia entre los escombros, sin agua, sin gas, sin electricidad, acuciadas por el hambre, el miedo y el asco, y posteriormente, tras la batalla de Berlín, por la venganza de los vencedores. No hay rastro aquí de aquella autocompasión que padecieron los alemanes derrotados. Una serenidad desilusionada, una reflexión insobornable, una observación despiadada y un humor macabro caracterizan este diario ( ) Quien quiera enterarse de lo que en realidad ocurrió en las postrimerías de la Segunda Guerra Mundial tendrá que preguntárselo a las mujeres. Así lo ve la autora de este libro, que vivió el final de la guerra en Berlín. Sus observaciones aparecieron publicadas por primera vez en 1954, gracias a los esfuerzos del crítico Kurt W. Marek. Además del epílogo que Marek adjuntó a dicha primera edición en inglés, Anagrama recoge una introducción de Hans Magnus Enzensberger donde relata las vicisitudes por las que han pasado estas memorias desde su creación y la razón por la que la autora decidió no revelar su identidad. En este documento único no se ilustra lo singular sino lo que les tocó vivir a millones de mujeres: primero la supervivencia entre los escombros, acuciadas por el hambre, el miedo y el asco, y posteriormente, por la venganza de los vencedores Like I've said before, I don't really like reviewing historical books like this as you can't really be that critical, especially this type (war diary) as it directly applies to an actual person. This is the war diary of an anonymous lady, trapped in Berlin as the Russians are getting closer & finally occupy the city. There is some pretty awful stuff as you would expect in this kind of publication. It's books like this that make me glad I'm able to read with a sense of detachment sometimes because actually living in this book (although it's not hard to picture) would be absolutely horriffic. Because of the nature of this book, it took me a long time to read. Longer than I usually take to read a book of this length. The anonymous writer writes openly, and with great detail, of the brutal Russian occupation of Berlin in the late spring of 1945. Her first person account of the repeated rapes by the Russians and the choices that a woman needed to make in the chaos of war in order to live is chilling, and these were the parts that, after reading I had to put the book down and move into something lighter for a while before resuming. The building ruins, the hunger, the lack of sanitation of a ruined capital are all here. This is a very powerful book and will make the reader wonder how far they would go to survive if they were in a similar situation. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war. This diary was first published in America in 1954 in an English translation and in Britain in 1955. A German language edition was published five years later in Geneva and was met with tremendous controversy. In 2003, over forty years later, it was republished in Germany to critical acclaim - and more controversy. This diary has been unavailable since the 1960s and is now newly translated into English. A Woman in Berlin is an astonishing and deeply affecting account. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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