Paesaggi della metropoli della morte

Foto de meio corpo de Otto Dov Kulka tirada por um taxista que o conduziu a Auschwitz Há algumas semanas regressei ao inesgotável tema do Holocausto com "Paisagens da Metrópole da Morte: Reflexões Sobre a Memória e a Imaginação" e fui surpreendida: ainda há factos que eu desconheço sobre o tema e qu Leggi tutto

Memory not memoir from Kulka, a historian, of his childhood as a prisoner in Auschwitz, succeeds where most memoirs fail in its ability to poetically mirror the funhouse reflections of a subjective past into an experience that can be shared. Illustrated throughout, jumping in time and space from Pol Leggi tutto

I must confess that I was expecting a much better book. I don't mean to be disrespectful, it is a powerful and moving story of hardships and survival, but for a memoir I found it very confusing and unfocused. There is no clear narrative (as opposed to Elie Wiesel's grandpiece "Night") nor clear time Leggi tutto

A bit of an odd book. I bought it a few years ago because it was referenced in something else I read. The subtitle is more descriptive of the book. The author was born in Czechoslovakia, and as a young Jewish boy deported by the Nazis to Theresienstadt and later to the "family camp" at Auschwitz-Bir Leggi tutto

Krótkie, ale zaskakujące głębią refleksji "badanie pamięci" jedenastoletniego więźnia obozu rodzinnego w Auschwitz dokonane po latach przez historyka, którym stał się ów jedenastolatek. Jedno z najciekawszych wspomnień obozowych i zapis osobistych zmagań z doświadczeniem "metropolii śmierci" i "praw Leggi tutto

Prometheus in Hades: silence and desolation from horizon to horizon. Otto Dov Kulka, Czechoslovakian Jew, Holocaust survivor, eminent Israeli historian and memoirist of the cataclysm, writes slowly, sparingly and movingly of a return visit to Auchwitz, and the childhood memories he has been unable t Leggi tutto

Otto Dov Kulka is an esteemed historian and also himself an Auschwitz survivor. In this book Kulka, the historian, walks through the gates of Auschwitz and awakens the eleven year old child that he was. It is Kulka, the child-inmate, who takes us back to his metropolis of death. This is a very perso Leggi tutto

Is it natural to feel strange reviewing a book on the Holocaust? I guess, so I'll keep this as short as possible. In the introduction and first few pages Otto mentions that he never really felt the need to talk about his childhood and what happened, and that a lot of survivors feel the same way. So w Leggi tutto

A tough one to review, this! It's quite an unusual kind of book - not quite autobiography, not straightforward history, either, but rather an Auschwitz survivor's reflections on his experience and the impact it's had on him, especially on a subconscious level. This is interspersed with photographs a Leggi tutto

I personally feel that many other books about the holocaust and experiences in Auschwitz will be very different from this one, though I have not read much on the subject. However, judging from what I have read this book is organized in a very intentional manner. In the first section, the author recou Leggi tutto