Close to Jedenew (The Contemporary Art of the Novella)
by Kevin Vennemann
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Author: Kevin VennemannTranslator: Ross Benjamin
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 1933633395
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: Melville House
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Book Review: Monstrous neighbors in one village in the Holocaust
Summary: 5 Stars
The story of one family's destruction in the holocaust. Told in an intense swirl of talk and memories and childhood images, sticky with fear and with the monstrous change in the locals from envy to fear to a looting - seize the moment type psychology. Couldn't breathe while reading.
Like the Unknown Black Book (ed. Joshua Rubenstein), tells of a lesser known (to Americans) aspect of the Holocaust: the psychology of the murderous rage that the Germans unleashed and asked the Jews' neighbors to join: in Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Crimea, and many other places. This was also a tragedy for the Poles, the Russians, the Ukrainians: their societies fell apart, villager turned on villager, people became like wolves to each other. The worst in the book is the laughter.
Summary of Close to Jedenew (The Contemporary Art of the Novella)
On this evening, on the last evening, it is Antonina who says softly: They're coming.It begins like a classic German fable: Children from the rural village of Jedenew, Poland, get together late at night to play together in the dark woods. But their game is to pretend they live in the imaginary world of the Jedenew that came before them-when it wasn't occupied by the Nazis, and their Jewish friends weren't mysteriously disappearing one by one.
Kevin Vennemann's writing-already a sensation with the major publishing houses of Europe-is evocative of W.G. Sebald for its lyrical style and bold intelligence. The innovative simultaneous plot-consisting of the real and imaginative world of the children-has earned comparison to the piercing analogies of Kafka. But the accessible and absorbing narrative of Close to Jedenew, as well as its beautifully lush prose, signals the emergence of one of the most original and masterful young writers to appear in decades.
The Contemporary Art of the Novella series is designed to highlight work by major authors from around the world. In most instances, as with Imre Kertész, it showcases work never before published; in others, books are reprised that should never have gone out of print. It is intended that the series feature many well-known authors and some exciting new discoveries. And as with the original series, The Art of the Novella, each book is a beautifully packaged and inexpensive volume meant to celebrate the form and its practitioners.
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