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Sto caricando le informazioni... Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes (1977)di Friedrich Torberg
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Torberg entführt den Leser in die Welt des jüdischen Großbürgertums der k.&k.-Monarchie und dessen Nachfolgestaaten. Torbergs Werk ist eine Aneinanderreihung von Anekdoten voll Lebensweisheit, Humor und Wehmut. Die darin enthaltenen Reminisenzen drehen sich ebenso um berühmte Zeitgenossen des Autors wie um skurille Käuze und unbekannte Helden und Heldinnen, wie beispielsweise die namensgebende Tante Jolesch. Bei aller Heiterkeit und Freude, die das Lesen des Buchs hervorruft, bleibt ein bitterer Beigeschmack über den spätestens durch den Holocaust eingetretenen unwiederbringlichen Verlust der beschriebenen Welt und seiner Bewohner und Kultur. ( ) Von allen Sprüchen, die der Tante Jolesch zugeschrieben werden, ist dies derjenige, den man am häufigsten anwendet: Gott soll einen schützen vor allem, was noch ein Glück ist. Torberg versammelt hier Anekdoten aus einer längst vergangenen, nicht nur im Rückblick goldenen Zeit der Wiener Kaffeehäuser. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Already a much loved classic in Austria, "Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes" is Friedrich Torberg's tribute to the Jewish coffee-house world that flourished in Vienna in the afterglow of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until its final collapse in 1938. Based on Torberg's personal memories of intellectuals and eccentrics of the time, including Egon Friedell, Fritz Grünbaum, Egon Erwin Kisch, Alfred Polgar, and Franz Werfel, this work evokes the storytelling and humour prominent among Vienna's coffee-house denizens. These anecdotes allow one to see into the lives of assimilated Jews before the Shoah, beginning in the living room of Tante Jolesch, revolving around the coffee-house, and extending to summer resorts, sports matches, dinner parties, a psychiatric clinic under the care of Sigmund Freud, and the office of a U.S. consular official in charge of granting visas to the United States. In this volume, Torberg builds a literary monument to a group of people, a time, and a culture of which he saw himself as one of the last representatives. Despite being one of the most prominent Austrian literary figures of the twentieth century, Friedrich Torberg is not well known in the English-speaking world. He joined the literary elite of pre-war Austria at the age of twenty-two, but his career was cut short by the Nazi ban on Jewish writers. Invited by the New York PEN Club as one of "ten outstanding German anti-Nazi writers", Torberg was able to flee to the United States where he wrote screenplays and articles for German-language newspapers. In 1951 Torberg returned to Vienna, where he became a journalist, critic, and translator. In 1979 he received the Austrian State Prize for Literature. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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