Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
Reflections on Memory and Imagination. Winner of the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis 2013 and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 2014
(Sprache: Englisch)
A memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by a childhood spent in Auschwitz
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A memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by a childhood spent in Auschwitz
Autoren-Porträt von Otto D. Kulka
Otto Dov Kulka, geboren 1933 in der Tschechoslowakei. Seit 1949 lebt er in Israel. Der emeritierte Professor für die Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes an der Hebräischen Universität in Jerusalem hat sich zeitlebens mit der NS-Geschichte und dem Völkermord an den Juden beschäftigt. 2013 wurde er mit dem "Geschwister-Scholl-Preis" ausgezeichnet.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Otto D. Kulka
- 2013, 144 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 1,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 1846146836
- ISBN-13: 9781846146831
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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This is one of the most remarkable testimonies to inhumanity that I know. The deeply moving recollections of Dov Kulka's boyhood years in Auschwitz, interwoven with reflections of elegiac, poetic quality, vividly convey the horror of the death-camp, the trauma of family and friends, and the indelible imprint left on the memory of a young boy who became a distinguished historian of the Holocaust. An extraordinarily important work which needs to be read -- Sir Ian Kershaw Astonishing ... [Landscapes] is, quite simply, extraordinary ... a sort of Modernist precipitate of a historical work, something strange and powerful formed from, but separate to, the solution of history ... I can't see how this book could be bettered -- Robert Eaglestone Times Higher Education Almost unclassifiable ... Nothing else I have read comes close to this profound examination of what the Holocaust means ... [Kulka's] journey strikes me as a quest similar to the attempt to describe the face of God or the structure of the universe. They are too vast and too mysterious. Not that this stops us, or this author, from trying -- Linda Grant New Statesman Primo Levi's testimony, it is often said, is that of a chemist: clear, cool, precise, distant. So with Kulka's work: this is the product of a master historian - ironic, probing, present in the past, able to connect the particular with the cosmic. His memory is in the service of deep historical understanding, rendered in evocative prose that is here eloquently translated from Hebrew -- Thomas Laqueur Guardian Beautiful, startling ... This is a great book: read it. And be grateful - its publication is, in every possible sense, a miracle ... It is the strange and shocking paradox, this child's world constructed in such proximity to death, that makes the book so startling and so beautiful. Every incident is, in effect, seen twice: through the eyes of the historian and the eyes of a boy ... This is not history, it is something else... his words enter the
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wider sphere of literature -- Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times Kulka's reflections have an unsettling rawness ... yet even in Auschwitz, there are moments of protest, black humour and beauty ... This is a grave, poetic and horrifying account of the Holocaust which does not so much revisit the Auschwitz of the past, but the Auschwitz of Kulka's inner world -- Arifa Akbar Independent This is not so much a book about Auschwitz as one about coming to terms with the shock of survival ... Amid fragmentary, digressive impressions are images of terrible poetic concreteness ... What, ultimately, makes Kulka's book unlike any other first-hand account written about the camps is the authenticity of its vision of an 11-year-old boy... He has done the rest of us - and the world - so great a kindness by writing his book ... offer[ing] the barest glint of sunlight amid a thunderous darkness -- Simon Schama Financial Times A book of moments, hauntings and dreams ... it is unremitting and touches us all [with] a hallucinatory power The Times For the first time, [Kulka] has turned his academic eye inward to explore as unflinchingly as possible the ways in which his childhood encounter with Auschwitz has affected him. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death makes for deeply disturbing but ultimately very rewarding reading, and is unlike any Holocaust memoir I have ever come across ... The book is not a memoir in the conventional sense, but an extraordinary collection of some of the memories, ideas and dreams that make up Kulka's internal landscape -- Keith Lowe Telegraph In this short, powerful memoir, every word tells its story Daily Mail The term memoir barely seems adequate to the introspective, often poetic, sometimes hallucinatory moments that [Landscapes] captures ... such an important contribution to the literature on the Holocaust ... [it] unsettles presuppositions about the camp and its lasting psychological effects so thoroughly that even a reader steeped in the Holocaust canon is likely to experience a sense of defamiliarisation Sydney Review of Books
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