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Kapo

Af: Richard Williams, Aleksander Tisma Engelsk Paperback

Kapo

Af: Richard Williams, Aleksander Tisma Engelsk Paperback
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A devastating novel about the attrocities of WWII, and the unspeakable things people did to survive, by one of Yugoslavia''s great literary voices.

The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo: In these three unsparing novels the Yugoslav author Aleksandar Tišma anatomized the plight of those who survived the Second World War and the death camps, only to live on in a death-haunted world. Blam simply lucked out—and can hardly face himself in the mirror. By contrast, the teenage friends in The Use of Man are condemned to live on and on while enduring every affliction. Kapo is about Lamian, who made it through Auschwitz by serving his German masters, knowing that at any moment and for any reason his “special status” might be revoked.

But the war is over now. Auschwitz is in the past. Lamian has settled down in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, where he has a respectable job as a superintendent in the railyard. Everything is normal enough. Then one day in the paper he comes on the name of Helena Lifka, a woman—like him a Yugoslav and a Jew—he raped in the camp. Not long after he sees her, aged and ungainly, Lamian is flooded with guilt and terror.

Kapo, like Tišma’s other great novels, is not simply a document or an act of witness. Tišma’s terrible gift is to see with an artist’s dispassionate clarity how fear, violence, guilt, and desire—whether for life, love, or simple understanding—are inextricably knotted together in the human breast.
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A devastating novel about the attrocities of WWII, and the unspeakable things people did to survive, by one of Yugoslavia''s great literary voices.

The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo: In these three unsparing novels the Yugoslav author Aleksandar Tišma anatomized the plight of those who survived the Second World War and the death camps, only to live on in a death-haunted world. Blam simply lucked out—and can hardly face himself in the mirror. By contrast, the teenage friends in The Use of Man are condemned to live on and on while enduring every affliction. Kapo is about Lamian, who made it through Auschwitz by serving his German masters, knowing that at any moment and for any reason his “special status” might be revoked.

But the war is over now. Auschwitz is in the past. Lamian has settled down in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, where he has a respectable job as a superintendent in the railyard. Everything is normal enough. Then one day in the paper he comes on the name of Helena Lifka, a woman—like him a Yugoslav and a Jew—he raped in the camp. Not long after he sees her, aged and ungainly, Lamian is flooded with guilt and terror.

Kapo, like Tišma’s other great novels, is not simply a document or an act of witness. Tišma’s terrible gift is to see with an artist’s dispassionate clarity how fear, violence, guilt, and desire—whether for life, love, or simple understanding—are inextricably knotted together in the human breast.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 312
ISBN-13: 9781681374390
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1681374390
Udg. Dato: 7 sep 2021
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 202mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Oplagsdato: 7 sep 2021
Forfatter(e) Richard Williams, Aleksander Tisma


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781681374390


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 312


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 202mm


Højde 131mm


Udg. Dato 7 sep 2021


Oplagsdato 7 sep 2021


Forlag The New York Review of Books, Inc

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