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Cargando... 1944 Diary (2014)por Hans Keilson
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"An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst Hans Keilson: The Death of the Adversary (1959) and Comedy in a Minor Key (1944). With their Chekhovian sympathy for perpetrators and bystanders as much as for victims and resisters, they were, as Francine Prose raved on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, 'masterpieces' by 'a genius.' After Keilson's death at age 101, a diary was found among his papers covering nine months in hiding with members of a Dutch resistance group. It tells the story not only of Keilson's survival but also of the moral and artistic life he was struggling to make for himself. Along with Keilsonesque set pieces--such as an encounter with a pastor who is sick of having to help Jews, and a day locked upstairs during a Nazi roundup in the city--the diary is full of reading notes on Kafka, Rilke, Céline, Buber, and others. Forcibly separated from his wife and young child, Keilson was having a passionate love affair with a younger Jewish woman in hiding a few blocks away, and writing dozens of sonnets to her, struggling with claims of morality and of love. 1944 Diary is a revelatory new angle on an often-told history and the work of one of Europe's most important novelists at a key moment of the twentieth century"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I almost put this book down so many times during the first half because Keilson's condescending misogyny was driving me absolutely up the wall. Thankfully, as the fighting got closer, those aspects faded away, and Keilson's diary turned more to literature, to his life's purpose, and to deeper emotional connections. So I started the book annoyed, became more and more empathetic with Keilson in the second half, and then... the poetry. The first few poems I felt were nice enough love sonnets, but like the diary itself, the more I read the more deeply I was moved and the higher I esteemed Keilson. These sonnets aren't just about love, but about love and horror -- both the horror of that utter vulnerability of love and also the horror of death and war all around them -- it all became enmeshed.
I wish I could say that I learned something deep about living in a time of horror -- but all I learned is that our stupid hearts go on the same -- loving, selfish, grasping for meaning, making plans, enmeshed in our own private dramas. ( )