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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Keller is a violinist unable to fight fo his country because of a weak heart. He is performing for soldiers who are convalescing in hospitals. But one day he is picked up by the SS and delivered to a concentration camp and asked to be part of an experiment. Can classical music revive the spirits of a select group of concentration camp victims? Keller agrees to this plan aware that he really has no choice. This story is combined with interludes from Keller's past - his growing closeness and developing romantic interest in Marietta a fellow musician and a Jew. Keller plays his music to the prisoners hoping he can save them but not all of them want to be saved. There is also the character of Rudi a guard who loves classical music, and has very mixed feelings about the Jew and what he is doing there. Keller sooon discovers what is happening at the camp but has no choice but to keep playing and what happens at the end of the concert has devastating consequences for both him and his audience. ( ) Holocaust literature is meant to make us feel uncomfortable; "The Savior" does that. What makes this more interesting than most is how Drucker (member of the Emerson Quartet) describes the music performed by the main character. In some ways, it is unfortunate the book is not bundled with audio files of the violin sonatas described. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A magnetic debut novel from world-renowned violinist Eugene Drucker Set during the final weeks of World War II, The Savior is the story of Gottfried Keller, a young German violinist. Exempted from military service, Keller is burdened with the demoralizing task of playing for wounded soldiers in hospitals and makeshift infirmaries. As he leaves his apartment one morning to pick up a new assignment at headquarters, Keller finds an SS driver waiting for him and is escorted without explanation to a labor camp outside his town. There he is introduced to the camp's Kommandant, who tells Keller that he will spend the next four days performing for the inmates as part of an experiment in reviving hope in those who have lost it completely. Overwhelmed by fear and compelled by the temptation of using his talent to affect others so powerfully, Keller finds himself playing a series of concerts for the prisoners -- and seeing with his own eyes the horrifying truths within the barbed-wire fence. As he plays the music of Ysaÿe, Hindemith and Bach, most notably the searing Chaconne, Keller's own questionable past unfolds, revealing the loss of his closest friend and the Jewish fiancée from whom he fled in fear of being caught as a Jew-lover. As he bears witness to the camp's atrocities, Keller's horror toward the perpetrators and their crime begins to fade, revealing his own culpability. Beautifully conceived and gracefully written, The Savior is a complex and illuminating character study of a man severed from his past expectations and an artist struggling with his identity in the face of human catastrophe. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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