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Laddar... The Journey (1962)av H. G. Adler
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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. The Journey is a poetic nightmare about a family's ordeal and the survival of one member. The Lustig family, led by patriarch Leopold, is "forbidden" to live, surviving in a society where "everyone was mad, and once they finally grasped what was going on, it was too late." It portrays the unfathomable in a way that is both intriguing and enlightening to the modern reader, similar to the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. If you have read quite a few books about the Holocaust, you will probably find this one interesting. But if you're coming for the first time to reading about how people experienced, and sometimes survived, the horrors of the WWII death camps, you may find that there is not enough background information in this novel to give you a full picture.
I’ve read a lot of books, but nothing quite like this one. An attempt to use the instruments of 20th-century literature to depict the dislocations of spirit and consciousness caused by the genocide against the Jews, its style could be called Holocaust modernism, an improbable formulation if ever there was one. Prestigefyllda urval
Here is “a rich and lyrical masterpiece”–notes Peter Constantine–the first translation of a lost treasure by acclaimed author H. G. Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Written in 1950, after Adler’s emigration to England, The Journey was ignored by large publishing houses after the war and not released in Germany until 1962. Depicting the Holocaust in a unique and deeply moving way, and avoiding specific mention of country or camps–even of Nazis and Jews–The Journey is a poetic nightmare of a family’s ordeal and one member’s survival. Led by the doctor patriarch Leopold, the Lustig family finds itself “forbidden” to live, enduring in a world in which “everyone was crazy, and once they finally recognized what was happening it was too late.” Linked by its innovative style to the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, The Journey portrays the unimaginable in a way that anyone interested in recent history and modern literature must read. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Well, I couldn't make out heads or tails about what the author was trying to portray. It's one thing when it's a book of big words that require you to pause and look up their meanings for better understanding, but it's a whole different ballgame when the author's writing is nothing but riddles, talking in circles and full of repetitive sentences with underlying meanings. Forget the fact that I couldn't even decide who was talking or what exactly they were doing.
I really wanted to try and appreciate this guys writing because of his experience and survival through the holocaust, but the structure of the novel was all over the place. Still, I did give it my very best shot and read through page 100 and would have finished regardless, if only I understood even a little bit.
Although a novel, Adler's real life is supposedly portrayed in the character of Paul Lustig, the only surviving member of his family. ( )