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The Circumcision

di György Dalos

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Twelve-year-old Robi Singer and best friend Gabor Blum are the only boys in their class who have yet to be circumcised. Robi is worried. What if the knife should slip? What will the others think in the showers? Will he find a wife? Is there plastic surgery to fix damage of this sort? Should he have the circumcision? Everyone has an opinion - from his teachers to his eccentric grandmother and hypochondriac mother - the final decision is Robi's. Gyorgy Dalos, born in Budapest in 1943, was arrested in 1968 for 'activities against the state' and his work was banned for 19 years.… (altro)
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Ich war sehr skeptisch, was dieses Buch angesichts des eher übermäßig gemütlich Klappentextes. Er versprach die Geschichte einer "selbsternannten ungarischen Juden zu Christus, einer schmerzhaft übergewichtig 'Halbwaise" mit einem hypochondrischen Mutter ", und seine Entscheidung, ob oder nicht, sich beschneiden zu lassen. Was ich erwartet hatte war ein skatologische Komödie mit vielen Witzen über Judentum und Penisse. Was ich bekam, war eine ausgezeichnete schwarze Komödie über die Suche nach Identität und eine Untersuchung einer familiären Funktionsstörung schmerzlich durch die Augen eines naiven Jungen erzählt.

Der Junge, Robi ist jüdisch von Geburt, aber nicht durch den Glauben, und er kann seine jüdische Identität mit seiner nicht-jüdischen Glaubens nicht in Einklang zu bringen. Obwohl er die Welt, die er sieht, nicht versteht, ist er in der Lage, genug davon für uns zu beschreiben, was er nicht verstehen kann. Er hat eine übermächtige kommunistische Großmutter und eine neurotische fettleibige Mutter, die keine Unterstützung bei der Suche nach Identität ist. Er ist ständig ein Außenseiter: jüdisch bei Heiden, ein Nichtjude bei Juden, und er hat keine Ahnung, wie man sich selbst einen Sinn zu geben kann. In der Zwischenzeit auf seiner Suche unglücklich für irgendeine Art von Halt an Identität, seine Familie fällt auseinander um ihn herum.

Auch wenn der Ton ist offenkundig leicht ist, ist im Kern nichts lustig an Robis Notlage. Es ist schmerzhaft zu beobachten, und Dalos' 'brillanter Einsatz von Humor erlaubt es ihm, tief in einer Familie am Rande der Kernschmelze einzutauchen. Dieses Buch gewann einen Platz in meinem Herzen, obwohl ich nicht damit gerechnet hatte, es zu mögen ein bisschen von Anfang an; das, glaube ich, ist eine ziemlich hohe Empfehlung. Es ist kurz, schnell zu lesen, und ich denke, ein jeder, der schwarzer Humor liebt, sollte ein Auge darauf werfen.
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  ffh | Feb 9, 2015 |
I was extremely skeptical about this book, given the rather overly-jovial blurb. It promised the story of a "self-proclaimed Hungarian Jew for Christ, a painfully overweight 'half-orphan' with a hypochondriac mother" and his decision about whether or not to be circumcised. What I expected was a scatological comedy with lots of jokes about Jewishness and penises. What I got was an excellent dark comedy about the search for identity, and an examination of family dysfunction painfully told through the eyes of a naive boy.

The boy, Robi, is Jewish by birth, but not by faith, and he cannot reconcile his jewish identity with his non-jewish beliefs. Although he doesn't understand the world he sees, he is able to describe enough of it for us to understand what he can't. He has an overbearing communist grandmother, and a neurotic obese mother who is no support in his search for identity. He is constantly an outsider: Jewish to gentiles, a gentile to Jews, and he has no idea how to give himself meaning. Meanwhile, as he searches unhappily for some sort of foothold on identity, his family falls apart around him.

Although the tone is overtly light, there is, at heart, nothing funny about Robi's plight. It is painful to observe, and Dalos' brilliant use of humour allows him to delve deeply into a family on the verge of meltdown. This book won a place in my heart despite me not expecting to like it one little bit from the start, which, I think, is a fairly high recommendation. It is a short, quick read, and one I think anyone who like dark humour should keep an eye out for.
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Twelve-year-old Robi Singer and best friend Gabor Blum are the only boys in their class who have yet to be circumcised. Robi is worried. What if the knife should slip? What will the others think in the showers? Will he find a wife? Is there plastic surgery to fix damage of this sort? Should he have the circumcision? Everyone has an opinion - from his teachers to his eccentric grandmother and hypochondriac mother - the final decision is Robi's. Gyorgy Dalos, born in Budapest in 1943, was arrested in 1968 for 'activities against the state' and his work was banned for 19 years.

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