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Arnošt Lustig (1926–2011)

Autor de Ojos verdes

38+ Obras 819 Miembros 13 Reseñas 2 Preferidas

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Arnost Lustig (December 21,1926 - February 26, 2011) was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust. Lustig himself was a survivor of the Holocaust. He was born in Prague. As a young boy, he was sent in 1942 to the mostrar más Theresienstadt concentration camp, from there he was later transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1945, he escaped from a train carrying him to the Dachau concentration camp. When he returned to Prague, he took part in the anti-Nazi uprising. After the war, he studied journalism at Charles University in Prague and then worked for a number of years at Radio Prague. Lustig later taught at the American University in Washington, D. C. His most renowned books are A Prayer For Katerina Horowitzowa (published and nominated for a National Book Award in 1974), Dita Saxová (1962, trans. 1979 as Dita Saxova), Night and Hope (1957, trans. 1985), and Lovely Green Eyes (2004). Lustig's short story selections included "Children of the Holocaust," "Indecent Dreams," and "Street of Lost Brothers." He was awarded an Emmy, a National Jewish Book Award, and the Karel Capek Award for Literary Achievement by President Valclav Havel. After his retirement from the American University in 2003, he became a full-time resident of Prague. In 2008, Lustig became the eighth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize, and the third recipient of the Karel Capek Prize in 1996. Lustig died at age 84 in Prague on February 26, 2011, after suffering from Hodgkin lymphoma for five years. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series

Obras de Arnošt Lustig

Ojos verdes (2000) — Autor — 228 copias
Night and Hope (1958) 89 copias
Darkness Casts No Shadow (1975) 73 copias
Dita Saxova (1962) 46 copias
Indecent Dreams (1988) 40 copias
Diamonds of the Night (1978) 38 copias
Waiting for Leah (2004) 28 copias
Children of the Holocaust (1995) 23 copias
Street of Lost Brothers (1990) 22 copias
Miláček 3 copias

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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Lustig, Arnošt
Nombre legal
Lustig, Arnošt
Otros nombres
LUSTIG, Arnošt
LUSTIG, Arnost
Fecha de nacimiento
1926-12-21
Fecha de fallecimiento
2011-02-26
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Czech
País (para mapa)
Tsjechië
Lugar de nacimiento
Praag, Tsjechië
Lugar de fallecimiento
Praag, Tsjechië
Lugares de residencia
Prague, Czech Republic
Washington, D.C., USA
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Educación
Charles University, Prague
Ocupaciones
writer
Relaciones
Wiener, Jan G.
Lustiger, Gila (daughter)
Weislitzova, Vera (wife)
Premios y honores
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [2004])
Franz Kafka Prize (2008)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2009)
Biografía breve
Arnošt Lustig was born to a Jewish family in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1942, at age 15, he was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Terezín (Theresienstadt), then to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He was on a train headed for Dachau in 1945 when the engine was hit and disabled by an American bomber plane. He escaped and returned to Prague, where he fought with the Resistance. After the war, he studied journalism at Charles University in Prague and later worked as a magazine editor, script writer,, and radio reporter. He covered the1948 Israeli War of Independence from Israel, where he met his future wife, Věra Weislitzová, also a Holocaust survivor. With his literary work gaining recognition starting in the late 1950s, his was a vital voice in Czechoslovakia during the build up to the Prague Spring of 1968. He was a close friend of Václav Havel, the dissent leader and future president. When "socialism with a human face" was crushed by the Soviets, the Lustigs emigrated to the USA, where he taught for many years at American University. He and his wife returned often to Prague after the fall of communism and retired there in 2004. He wrote more than 20 books and volumes of short stories; many, if not all, were about the Holocaust. His best-known work is perhaps the novel A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova, published in the USA in 1973. Several of his works were adapted into movies; Lustig was also the subject of the award-winning 2000 documentary film Fighter.

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This is a story of young lovely girls who were mainly 13 or 15 years old pretending they are 18. In order to stay alive in the Czech concentration prison camps, they pretend to be 18 in order to be prostitutes who spent time in small little cells where they met German high rank men who met the girls who provide any pleasure they demand.

This is the story of the girls who survived. The girl who tells the story was, like all others who were forced to live a life of servitude, or be ordered to the gas chambers.

The story ends with one of the survivors telling her tale to a Rabbi. As she point by point tells the Rabbi what it was like to give your soul to a man who has the power to kill you. As many stories of all impacted by the Holocaust, The world was left with the question of WHY? Why did the finger point one way where death occurs, and the other where a life of servitude and pain occurs. As the young girl, now a grown woman tells her story, all who hear it are left wounded.
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Whisper1 | 7 reseñas más. | Jul 30, 2022 |
I'm always drawn in by accounts or stories of what people went through at the hands of the Nazi mindset. I appreciated this book because it discussed two sides I'd not really read anything on before. On one hand there were the survivors, those who managed to drag themselves through right to the end of the war & face the no doubt near impossible task of trying to move on. And then there was the side of those who fought for the Nazi side, & believed strongly in everything that side fought for. The writing itself was a bit flowery at points, & this didn't always work. But what I did appreciate was that the author didn't use the subject of the girl's work (as a prostitute for the Nazi army) as an excuse to be graphic. I far prefer reading things about sex which don't really describe the sex at all, even more so in contexts such as this one as the act itself has little to do with it, its a by-product of the power games & coldness of the whole thing. Overall, good book...I suppose it made me think more than I gave it credit for.… (más)
 
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SadieBabie | 7 reseñas más. | Jun 23, 2018 |
Dita Saxova is an eighteen-year-old concentration camp survivor trying to start a new life in postwar Prague. Living in a special hostel for orphans from the camps, too old to be cared for parentally, too young to be fully adult, too soaked in reality to harbor many illusions, Dita struggles to reconcile struggles to reconcile her unfathomable past with her enigmatic future. First published in Czech in 1962, then in English in 1979, Dita Saxova confirms Arnost Lustig's place as one of the masterful storytellers of the Holocaust period.… (más)
 
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Asko_Tolonen | Nov 6, 2017 |
Comment définir ce livre? Une étude sur le chantage et la duperie? Terrible et pourtant si simple...
 
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Nikoz | otra reseña | Jul 22, 2017 |

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