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Melvin Jules Bukiet Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
W.W. Norton & Company Ltd 2002 0393050467 / 9780393050462 Hardcover Used: Like New Hardcover
New. Some bumping to publisher's quarter-bound boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Nothing Makes You Free, prefaced by a wild-swinging, whip-smart, angry, and occasionally irreverent essay by editor Melvin Jules Bukiet, is an internationally flavored collection of prose, both fiction and non-fiction, by the descendants of survivors of the Holocaust. Bukiet contends, convincingly, that the event remains a "historic Rorschach blot"; a comet that hit at "six million miles per hour" whose waves are still spreading, and a "talismanic touchstone that every writer [Jewish or not] must genuflect toward." Contributors include Eva Hoffman, Thane Rosenbaum, Victoria Redel, Art Spiegelman, and Carl Friedman. The selections vary wildly in genre, tone, and quality, and are, as often as not, at emotional and esthetic odds with each other. But cumulatively, they successfully move the reader toward some answer to what Bukiet calls the book's "implicit question... how atrocity gets filtered through imagination." --H. O'Billovitch ... "He isn't flying," a young boy explains about a picture he has drawn, "he's hanging. See, he's dead, his tongue is blue.... My father is there, too. Here, he is the one with the big ears." This anthology's memories and fictions contain many more moments that move and shock us. "The Second Generation will never know what the First Generation does in its bones, but what the Second Generation knows better than anyone else is the First Generation," writes Bukiet (Strange Fire), and these 30 pieces (including translations from the Hebrew, Swedish, German, French, Serbian, Dutch, Hungarian and Italian) cover a wide range of topics and emotions. In "Animal" (from Nightfather), Carl Friedman's father confesses that he wants the camp kapo he murdered to come back from the dead so that he can kill him again, but more slowly. In Sonia Pilcer's "Do You Deserve to Live," the author combines reflections on her survivor mother, her own work on a movie fan magazine and musings about Liz Taylor's conversion to Judaism in order to marry Eddie Fisher to generate original insights into the complexities of the survivor experience. The writing here is uniformly strong, intelligent and at times dazzling: Gila Lustiger's excerpt from The Inventory is a model of concise emotional story-telling, and Mihaly Kornis's short "Petition" (a sarcastic play on a legal document detailing the kind of life desired) is a wonderful conceit brilliantly executed. While some of the pieces are by noted writers such as Eva Hoffman, Art Spiegelman and Alan Kaufman, many names here will be new to readers, and the mixture of fiction and more traditional memoir is fresh as well. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Bukiet, Melvin Jules (Editor) Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
W. W. Norton & Company 2002 0393050467 / 9780393050462 Hardcover Fine Fine Hardcover
New. Fine in publisher's quarter bound boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Nothing Makes You Free, prefaced by a wild-swinging, whip-smart, angry, and occasionally irreverent essay by editor Melvin Jules Bukiet, is an internationally flavored collection of prose, both fiction and non-fiction, by the descendants of survivors of the Holocaust. Bukiet contends, convincingly, that the event remains a "historic Rorschach blot"; a comet that hit at "six million miles per hour" whose waves are still spreading, and a "talismanic touchstone that every writer [Jewish or not] must genuflect toward." Contributors include Eva Hoffman, Thane Rosenbaum, Victoria Redel, Art Spiegelman, and Carl Friedman. The selections vary wildly in genre, tone, and quality, and are, as often as not, at emotional and esthetic odds with each other. But cumulatively, they successfully move the reader toward some answer to what Bukiet calls the book's "implicit question... how atrocity gets filtered through imagination." --H. O'Billovitch ... "He isn't flying," a young boy explains about a picture he has drawn, "he's hanging. See, he's dead, his tongue is blue.... My father is there, too. Here, he is the one with the big ears." This anthology's memories and fictions contain many more moments that move and shock us. "The Second Generation will never know what the First Generation does in its bones, but what the Second Generation knows better than anyone else is the First Generation," writes Bukiet (Strange Fire), and these 30 pieces (including translations from the Hebrew, Swedish, German, French, Serbian, Dutch, Hungarian and Italian) cover a wide range of topics and emotions. In "Animal" (from Nightfather), Carl Friedman's father confesses that he wants the camp kapo he murdered to come back from the dead so that he can kill him again, but more slowly. In Sonia Pilcer's "Do You Deserve to Live," the author combines reflections on her survivor mother, her own work on a movie fan magazine and musings about Liz Taylor's conversion to Judaism in order to marry Eddie Fisher to generate original insights into the complexities of the survivor experience. The writing here is uniformly strong, intelligent and at times dazzling: Gila Lustiger's excerpt from The Inventory is a model of concise emotional story-telling, and Mihaly Kornis's short "Petition" (a sarcastic play on a legal document detailing the kind of life desired) is a wonderful conceit brilliantly executed. While some of the pieces are by noted writers such as Eva Hoffman, Art Spiegelman and Alan Kaufman, many names here will be new to readers, and the mixture of fiction and more traditional memoir is fresh as well. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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