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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. It has been many years since I read Sebald and I had forgotten how melancholy his writing is. That he is talented is without question. This recounting of the (fictional) lives of four German emigrants is almost unrelentingly depressing. The four stories that Sebald constructs are, for the most part, quite believable…even to the point of making me wonder on occasion if he isn’t simply telling non-fiction stories. But each one also has a few twists that struck me as not quite believable and reiterated that this is, in fact, fiction. Each story, in its way, addresses concerns of trauma and isolation, memory and belonging. I am not quite certain what it is about Sebald’s voice (in addition to his settings) that makes the overall effect so cheerless but I find it both consistent and compelling, in its way. One point that I think is essential to make is that the translation (into British, as opposed to U.S., English) is superb. I can’t read German and so have no way to compare but I find that Michael Hulse’s rendering is really quite extraordinary. ( ) «E si diventava di giorno in giorno, di ora in ora, da una pulsazione del cuore all'altra, sempre più incomprensibili, più poveri di qualità, più astratti». Sebald racconta l'Olocausto da lontano e insieme da dentro, dal punto di vista di chi, come recita il titolo, è emigrato portando con sé dolore e memoria e ha vissuto nell'impossibilità di dimenticare e in definitiva di ricominciare a vivere. Quattro storie vere ed esemplari, che Sebald indaga da vicino unendovi - soprattutto nel caso del racconto dedicato al pittore Ferber - la propria storia di emigrazione. Inoltrarsi in queste vite genera una tristezza insieme terribile e placida cui è impossibile sottrarsi. Sebald accompagna il lettore facendolo a poco a poco sempre più entrare nelle storie, anche grazie al frequente passaggio alla prima persona attraverso la voce dei personaggi e al suo usuale (per me nuovo, visto che è il suo primo libro che leggo) impiego delle immagini che arricchiscono il testo. Published in 1992, this book tells the separate stories of four people known by the unnamed narrator (possibly a stand-in for the author). Taken together, they reflect the impact of historical forces in the aftermath of WWII. The first story focuses on the narrator’s friend, Dr. Selwyn, an emigrant to London from Lithuania. The second tells of the narrator’s primary schoolteacher, Paul Bereyter, who fights in the German Army despite being a quarter Jewish. The third relates the story of the narrator’s Great Uncle Ambros Adelwarth, who emigrated to America. The fourth deals with the narrator’s friend, Max Ferber, an artist, whose work has grown in popularity when the two meet after two and a half decades apart. Though the Holocaust is never specifically mentioned, it looms in the background of these characters’ lives. The stories are interspersed with photographs and journal entries. The tone is melancholic. Common themes include memory, cultural displacement, loneliness, the lingering impact of traumatic events on a person’s mental health. The writing is almost mesmerizing in its somber beauty. It is a book that kept me looking for subtle connections among the four stories. It is a memorable work.
His book is tragic, stunningly beautiful, strange, and haunting. What makes it beautiful is the fastidious prose with its sad resigned rhythm—as appealing and hypnotic in Michael Hulse's English translation as in the German original; and also Sebald's wonderfully desolate landscapes and townscapes, where depression rises like mist from quite factual, unemphatic descriptions of people and things. Yet ''The Emigrants'' is not exactly a fictional memoir. Rather, it is the record of its narrator's investigations into the mysterious memories of others, preserved in stories that dramatize the sometimes treacherous enchantment of memory itself. In the shaping of these stories, Mr. Sebald's book reflects the irresistible retrospective circlings of our contemporary culture, even as he pursues a post-modern fictional inspection of the delicate relationship between memory and history. Pertence à Série da EditoraFabula [Adelphi] (185) Fischer Taschenbuch (12056) Harvill (217) Keltainen kirjasto (359) New Directions Paperbook (853) PrémiosNotable Lists
The road to exile of four men. One is a teacher, fired by the Nazis from his job for having a Jewish ancestor, then inducted into the German army. Of the others, all Jews, one is a surgeon who commits suicide as he is unable to assimilate into British society, a second is an artist, a third becomes a butler in New York. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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