Badenheim 1939

An engrossing novella translated from the Hebrew. The Shoah begins in a parallel universe. The resort town of Badenheim is undergoing a quarantine. All the Jews must register with the Sanitation Department. Mail service is stopped; all phones disconnected. The performing artists Dr. Pappenheim, the

Il mio ricordo di lettura di Aharon Appelfeld , scomparso ieri. Come pesci in bottiglia Sono un po' perplessa da questo mio primo incontro con Aharon Appelfeld. La lettura della prima pagina mi ha irritata: frasi cortissime, periodi semplici: soggetto, predicato verbale, punto. Una sensazione di interru Leggi tutto

হলোকস্ট সাহিত্য যে অল্প কিছু পড়েছি, একেকজন লেখকের একেকরকম দৃষ্টিকোণ থেকে। আর্ট স্পিগেল্ম্যানের বিখ্যাত কমিক উপন্যাস "মাউস" ছিল কল্পনায় অভিনব - গ্যাস চেম্বার থেকে কপাল-জোরে বেঁচে যাওয়া পিতা-মাতার শিল্পী সন্তানের হলোকস্ট-ভাবনা। চেক লেখক জিরি ভাইল একদম ভেতর থেকে দেখেছিলেন যজ্ঞ - নাৎসি-কবলিত প্রাগে এ Leggi tutto

an odd, dreamlike novel set in an imagined Austrian resort town at the beginning of the Second World War as groups of middle-class Jews arrive to spend another idyllic summer vacation at an annual arts festival. There is a fair whiff of Kafka in Appelfeld's restrained prose, and the incongruity of th Leggi tutto

A Japanese proverb states that 'The nail that sticks out gets hammered down'. Now, let's play the perspective game, imbuing some life into the nails and into the hammer. The nails sticking out, whether deliberately or not, the hammer coming down, steady, inevitable, fast or slow, the impact is in th Leggi tutto

Έτος 1939, παραμονές του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου και στη λουτρόπολη του Μπάντενχαϊμ όλα κυλούν αρμονικά, μια νωχελική ανεμελιά διακρίνει τους κατοίκους και τους παραθεριστές, οι οποίοι περιμένουν πώς και πώς το φεστιβάλ μουσικής που διοργανώνεται κάθε χρόνο. Μάλιστα, σύμφωνα με τον διοργανωτή, ειδικά Leggi tutto