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Jean Améry (1912–1978)

Autor(a) de At the Mind's Limit

41+ Works 796 Membros 11 Críticas 2 Favorited

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Obras por Jean Améry

At the Mind's Limit (1966) 354 exemplares
On Aging: Revolt and Resignation (1971) 87 exemplares
Die Schiffbrüchigen (2002) 14 exemplares
Unmeisterliche Wanderjahre (1971) 12 exemplares
Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left (2022) — Autor — 11 exemplares
Örtlichkeiten (1980) 9 exemplares
Geburt der Gegen wart 5 exemplares
Widersprüche (1980) 4 exemplares
Cinéma. Arbeiten zum Film (1994) 3 exemplares
Suc ve Kefaretin Otesinde (2015) 2 exemplares
Werke. Bände 1-9 (2008) 2 exemplares
Du vieillissement (1991) 2 exemplares
Sonderheft Jean Améry (1978) 1 exemplar
Der Grenzgänger (1992) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Sunflower (1997) — Contribuidor — 1,136 exemplares
The Treason of the Intellectuals (1927) — Vorwort, algumas edições236 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Améry, Jean
Nome legal
Mayer, Hans
Outros nomes
Mayer, Hanns
Data de nascimento
1912-10-31
Data de falecimento
1978-10-17
Localização do túmulo
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Austria
Belgium
Local de nascimento
Vienna, Austria
Local de falecimento
Salzburg, Austria
Locais de residência
Bad Ischl, Austria
Vienna, Austria
Berlin, Germany
Antwerpen, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium
London, England, UK
Educação
Vienna
Ocupações
author
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
essayist
Relações
Helmut Heißenbüttel
Organizações
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

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Born and educated in Vienna, Améry fled to Belgium in 1935 and joined the Resistance. He was captured by the Gestapo in 1943, tortured, and interned at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. After the war he changed his name from Hans Mayer to Jean Améry to disassociate himself with German culture, and he refused to publish in Germany or Austria for many years. He committed suicide in 1978.

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Jean Améry was one of Europe's most profound critics and essayists. Fleeing his native Vienna after the proclamation of the Nuremberg Laws, he joined the Resistance in Belgium, where he was subsequently captured by the Gestapo and sent to a series of concentration camps. After the war he made his home in Belgium until his death in 1978. At the Mind's limits was his unflinching analysis of his own inner world as a Holocaust victim and survivor. [from The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal (March 1998 ed.)]

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I think it will be a long while and a few more cover-to-cover reads before I can even remotely process this book or offer any personal reaction.

For now - suffice to say - I think its something that every human on earth should read.
 
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BreePye | 3 outras críticas | Oct 6, 2023 |
CUPRINS

1. Cuvant inainte - pag. 7
2. Cuvant inainte la cea de-a patra editie - pag. 10

3. Existenta si scurgerea timpului - pag. 13
4. Sa-ti debii tu insuti strain - pag. 44
5. Privirea delorlalti - pag. 74
6. Sa nu mai intelegi lumea - pag. 104
7. A trai cu gandul mortii - pag. 135
 
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Toma_Radu_Szoha | Apr 27, 2023 |
Wat was ik toch naïef om te denken dat met “Wat is een mens” van Primo Levi zowat het definitieve holocaust-boek geschreven was? Dat het meest essentiële van die vreselijke en unieke ervaring neergepend was? Dit boek van Jean Améry heeft dat intuïtieve aanvoelen degelijk de grond ingeboord. En dan bedoel ik niet dat de auteur treffender dan anderen de verschrikkingen van Auschwitz en andere helle-oorden heeft beschreven? Neen, Améry heeft het zelfs maar in beperkte mate over zijn kampervaringen. Zijn unieke bijdrage is daarentegen zijn lucide zelf-analyse over wat die ervaring met hem gedaan heeft, en na 20 jaar nog altijd doet, hoe die in hem voortleeft, en zijn identiteit is gaan uitmaken. Ik was vooral aangegrepen door de authentieke manier waarop hij zijn gevoelens onder woorden brengt, zich heel erg bewust is van het ‘onredelijke’ ervan (zijn blijvende wrok ten aanzien van Duitsers bijvoorbeeld), maar er toch aan vasthoudt. Améry is zelfs lucide genoeg om in te zien dat de holocaust-ervaring “ zal onder de formule ‘een barbaarse eeuw’ bedolven worden”, tezamen met zovele andere wandaden van de moderne humaniteit, en dat is inderdaad wat er gebeurd is. Ik weet dat het vreemd klinkt, alsof er een rangorde in holocaust-getuigenissen op te stellen is, maar met dit boek heeft Améry andere lotgenoten zoals Elie Wiesel en Victor Frankl sterk in de schaduw gesteld.… (mais)
 
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bookomaniac | 3 outras críticas | Oct 28, 2021 |
An interesting idea, a great form; I remember being bored by long stretches of it, but I also remember being really taken by the first few sections, in particular.
 
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stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |

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Obras
41
Also by
2
Membros
796
Popularidade
#32,019
Avaliação
4.2
Críticas
11
ISBN
98
Línguas
12
Marcado como favorito
2

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