Edgar Hilsenrath (1926–2018)
Autore di Il nazista e il barbiere
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Edgar Hilsenrath was born in Leipzig, Germany on April 2, 1926. Shortly before the Nazi violence against Jews on Kristallnacht in 1938, most of his family went to live with his grandparents in Siret, Bukovina. Three years later, after the territory was retaken by Romanian troops aligned with the mostra altro Germans, the family was deported to the Moghiley-Podolsk ghetto. The ghetto was liberated by the Russians in 1944. To avoid being drafted into the Red Army, he fled with forged documents on a refugee train to Palestine, where he worked on a kibbutz. He was reunited with his family in France in 1947. He lived in the United States from 1951 until 1975, when he returned to Germany. He wrote autobiographical novels about the Holocaust. His novels included Night, The Nazi and the Barber, The Tale of the Last Thought, Jossel Wassermann's Return, The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski, and Berlin... Endstation. He died of pneumonia on December 30, 2018 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Hilsenrath, Edgar
- Data di nascita
- 1926-04-02
- Data di morte
- 2018-12-30
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Duitsland
- Luogo di nascita
- Leipzig, Duitsland
- Luogo di morte
- Wittlich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
- Luogo di residenza
- Leipzig, Duitsland
- Attività lavorative
- auteur
- Organizzazioni
- PEN-Zentrum Deutschland
Autorenkreis der Bundesrepublik - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis (1996)
- Breve biografia
- Edgar Hilsenrath was born to a Jewish family in Leipzig, Germany, and raised in Halle. His parents were Anna and David Hilsenrath, a furrier. As a young teenager, he knew he wanted to be a novelist. In 1938, to escape the Nazi regime, his father fled to France, and his mother took Edgar and his brother to live with her parents in Siret, Bukovina (present-day Romania). In 1941, after the region was captured by Romanian troops aligned with Nazi Germany and incorporated into Transnistria, the family was confined in the ghetto of Mohyliv-Podilskyi. After the Red Army liberated the ghetto in 1944, Hilsenrath avoided being drafted by them by using forged papers to get on a refugee train bound for the British Mandate of Palestine. There he worked on a kibbutz for nearly three years. In 1947, he was reunited with his family in France. In 1951, he moved to New York City, where he supported himself by working as a waiter and a porter. Most of his novels were autobiographical, satirical, and brutally frank accounts of Holocaust events. He published his debut novel, Night, in English in 1964. It became a huge success in Germany when it appeared there 10 years later. His subsequent books included the provocative The Nazi and the Barber (1971), a worldwide bestseller that made him famous; The Tale of the Last Thought (1989); Jossel Wassermann's Return (1993); The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski (1997); and Terminus Berlin (2006), his last work. After he became a USA citizen and had lived in New York City for 24 years, Hilsenrath returned to Germany in 1975.
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- ISBN
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A parte questo aspetto è un libro estremamente poetico che mi ha fatto piangere tanto, di commozione.
Thovma Khatisian, in punto di morte è tenuto in vita da un narratore di fiabe che riesce ad afferrare il suo ultimo pensiero. Tra i due inizia così un dialogo che dura per tutto il libro.
E' l'escamotage dell'autore per raccontare la storia del genocidio armeno da parte dei turchi ed è anche una denuncia di come sia facile ottenere qualsiasi confessione da chi è sotto tortura.
E' anche la rievocazione di un villaggio (cito dalla quarta di copertina) "ai piedi del Monte Ararat, dove i girasoli crescono fino alle porte del paradiso, gli uomini diventano vecchissimi e le donne hanno seni turgidi come melagrane di primo mattino".
Da leggere in un periodo di forte stabilità e serenità psicologica.… (altro)