Vita coniugale

Çok güçlü ama ağır, kasvetli bir psikolojik roman Evlilik Hayatı. Ana karakter Gurdweill'ın inanılmaz zayıflığına, karısı Thea'nın da o ölçüdeki kötülüğüne, aralarındaki sadomazohist ilişkiye 450 sayfa boyunca isyan etmeden sabır göstermeniz gerekiyor. Bunu başarırsanız da sağlam edebiyatın zevkine Leggi tutto

" ...bekleyişe katlanmak zordu. Zaman ne kadar da yavaş akabiliyordu, nasıl da ağır ilerleyip donabiliyordu! Lakin bazen bir ok kadar süratli ve yakalanması zor oluyordu! Onu izlediğinde, seyrini takip ettiğinde inatla dururdu; yarım saat sonsuzluğa dek uzayabilirdi. Başlangıçlar, diye düşündü Gurdwe Leggi tutto

I found this book beautifully written and very interesting as a metaphor for the relationship between Jews and Austrians before WWII. But a few things bothered me: The book would be more interesting if the author had included something of Rudolph Gurdweill's childhood/adolescence - just in terms of

Author and poet David Vogel, who was presumed killed in 1944 at Auchwitz, wrote one book, "Married Life", published originally in 1929 in Hebrew, but then translated by Dalya Bilu and reprinted first in 1988 in English. I mention the dates because Vogel was writing contemporaneously about Vienna in

השאלה מיוכט בטיול לליסבון. העלילה חולנית, מוזרה ומרתקת והדמות הראשית מופתית. הסיום היה קצת מלודרמטי מדי בשבילי. הנועזות והקריפיות הפתיעו אותי, לא היה לי מושג שדיברו וחשבו כבר אז במונחים האלה. אבל בעיקר בעיקר, העברית שלו, עברית של 1920 ואולי עברית שייחודית רק לו: אותו רגע ראה עצמו כמנודח, כמוצא מכלל ה Leggi tutto

באינסוף כוכבים זוהרים זוכה יצירה זו של פוגל. גלקסיה שלמה של שפה, תרבות ומנהגים שכבר פשו מין העולם. ספר שכולו שיר הלל לעצב, צער, שיממון והשפלה מרצון אך גם לאהבה וחמלה יש מקום. מקבץ של רגשות מוקצנים שאף סופר לא ידע או יכול היה לתאר ורק פוגל, חופשי כציפור נתן דרור לכל מאוויו וגם ניכס את לבי אליו. איש עט בל Leggi tutto

I was so interested in the depiction of Viennese life. Poverty seemingly no barrier between shoemakers, writers, doctors and baronesses. Lots of shopping for food (no fridges) and going out to the cinema (no television) and hanging out in cafés. There is such a strong sense of friendship and communi Leggi tutto

This wonderfully horrific book is to the psychology of abusive relationships what Crime and Punishment was to the psychology of a criminal. This is no hyperbole. A dark and haunting tale of a Jewish man finding himself continuously abused by his Christian wife, both physically and mentally, without