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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. BIOGRAFÍA DEL AUTOR, JÓVEN JUDÍO POLACO. INGRESADO POR LOS NAZIS EN AUSCHWITZ Y MAUTHAUSEN, DONDE CONSIGUE SOBREVIVIR. TERMINADA LA GUERRA, TRABAJA POSTERIORMENTE COMO PERIODISTA EN POLONIA Y AL FIN CONSIGUE EMIGRAR A ISRAEL. ( ) This has got to be one of the most peculiar memoirs I've ever read, Holocaust or otherwise. I have never seen a person so baldly portray themselves in such an unflattering light. The author admits to being selfish, narcissistic, corrupt, chronically dishonest, a womanizer, a deadbeat father and husband, and even a cold-blooded murderer (after a fashion). Yet I could not dislike him. I too much admired his uncluttered honesty. This book is not necessarily any more graphic than other Holocaust memoirs, but the author's admissions are shocking, even to me. It also jumps around in time quite a bit, sometimes advancing or retreating decades between one paragraph and another. I wasn't annoyed by this, but I admit sometimes it was hard to keep track of things. I would recommend this book but only with reservations. The New York Times reviewer apparently shares my sentiments, though he expresses them much better than I. This is a great holocaust memoir. You get a taste of Roman's life on both sides of the coin. His life before and after and the people that were a part of those times. Then you get the time of his life when he was in the concentration camps and the death march. A fascinating look at both parts of this man's harrowing journey. An honest portrayal of this man's survival instinct. The Cap is a must read for all readers of Holocaust memoirs and literature. It is a stark, ragged remembrance of a man's account of surviving WWII, the concentration camps, and his adjustment to life in Communist Poland and later Israel. Written over 40yrs after the events, gives this book an interesting and thought-provoking view. It is difficult at times to read the harshness of his description of what must have been very painful events. Frister, with an excellent translation by Halkin, writes very well. I was compelled to finish the book in only two days. Interesting that someone can write a book telling of the horrendous circumstances they lived through in such an open way that some of the time you don't really like them that much. But it was of course a case of every man for himself, and unless you've walked in another man's shoes you shouldn't criticise. Quite thought provoking. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Uncompromisingly frank, "both brutal and beautifully written" (The Boston Globe), The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into a soul blackened by the unforgiving cruelty of its surroundings. Roman Frister's memoir of his life before, during, and after his imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps sparked enormous controversy and became an international best-seller. With bone-chilling candor, Frister illustrates how the impulse to live unhinges our comfortable notions of morality, blurring the boundary between victim and oppressor and leaving absolutely no room for martyrdom. By the time Roman Frister was sixteen, he had watched his mother murdered by an SS officer and he had waited for his father to expire, eager to retrieve a hidden half loaf of bread from beneath the dying man's cot. When confronted with certain death, he placed another inmate in harm's way to save himself. Frister's resilience and instinct for self-preservation -- developed in the camps -- become the source of his life's successes and failures. Chilling and unsentimental, The Cap is a rare and unadorned self-portrait of a man willing to show all of his scars. Reflected in stark relief are the indelible wounds of all twentieth-century European Jews. An exceptional and groundbreaking testimony, Roman Frister's "gut-wrenching memoir is a must-read." -- Kirkus Reviews Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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