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H. G. Adler A Life in Many Worlds

Filkins Peter
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780190222383
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
748 gr
Høyde
157 mm
Bredde
239 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
424

Forfatter
Filkins Peter

Om bidragsyterne

Peter Filkins is an award-winning translator and poet. He has translated three novels by H.G. Adler, Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, as well as the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the DAAD, and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock.

H. G. Adler A Life in Many Worlds

Filkins Peter
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Filkins Peter
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
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The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to telling the story of those who perished in over two dozen books of fiction, poetry, history, sociology, and religion. And yet for much of his life he remained almost entirely unknown. A writer's writer, a scholar of seminal, pioneering works on the Holocaust, a renowned radio essayist in postwar Germany, a last representative of the Prague Circle of literature headed by Kafka, a key contributor to the prosecution in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Adler was a man of his time whose times lived through him. His is the story of many others, but also one that is singularly his own. And at its heart lies a profound story of love and perseverance amid the loss of his first wife, Gertrud Klepetar, who accompanied her mother to the gas chamber in Auschwitz, and the courtship and extended correspondence with Bettina Gross, a Prague artist who escaped to the Britain, only to later learn that her mother had also been in Theresienstadt with Adler before her eventual death in Auschwitz. His delivery of a lecture in Theresienstadt commemorating Kafka's sixtieth birthday, and with Kafka's favorite sister present; the nurturing of a younger generation of artists and intellectuals, including the Israeli artist Jehuda Bacon and the Serbian novelist Ivan Ivanji; the preservation of Viktor Ullmann's compositions and his opera The Emperor of Atlantis, only to see them premiered decades later to world acclaim; and the penury of postwar life while churning out the novels, poetry, and scholarship that would make his reputation - all of these are part of a life survived in the moment, but dedicated to the future, and that of a man committed to helping human dignity survive in his time and that to come.
Les mer
After surviving Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, H.G. Adler (1910-88), vividly captured the experience in over two dozen books. And yet he remained almost entirely unknown. A writer of modernist novels, pioneering works on the Holocaust, and a last representative of Kafka's Prague, Adler was a man whose times lived through him.
Les mer
Acknowledgements 1 - The Lecture 2 - The Exile 3 - The Wanderers 4 - The Cataclysm 5 - The Flight 6 - The Railroad 7 - The Ghetto 8 - The Human Day 9 - One Thousand Paces 10 - The Letter Writers 11 - The Escape 12 - The Survivor 13 - The Writer 14 - The Witness 15 - The Trial 16 - The Artist 17 - The Poet 18 - The Man Index
Les mer
The research and intellectual commitment behind the biography is formidable...[Filkin] has done H. G. Adler more than justice: he has created a luminous new work that parallels Adler's own practice in its combination of lyrical prose, scrupulous scholarship and humanism.
Les mer
"The research and intellectual commitment behind the biography is formidable...[Filkin] has done H. G. Adler more than justice: he has created a luminous new work that parallels Adler's own practice in its combination of lyrical prose, scrupulous scholarship and humanism." -- Helen Finch, The University of Leeds, TLS "Authoritative, deeply empathetic...a well-deserved celebration of a courageous and determined public intellectual." -- Kirkus Reviews "This book is an intimate, detailed, and emotionally charged look at the life and times of Hans Günther Adler...A deeply moving tribute to a man dedicated to keeping human dignity alive amid some of the greatest depravity the world has ever known, Filkins's abundantly researched, honest book reveals Adler as a wounded, flawed human being but also as a man gifted with inner strength, endurance, and the burning desire to take what he was given and make of his life an inextinguishable light for a world bound by darkness." -- Foreword Reviews "[A] powerful portrait of Adler [...] this vivid biography [creates] a convincing picture of a man who grappled with the unimaginable and, upon his death, was justifiably called righteous" -- Publishers Weekly "I cannot put this book down. I do not want it to end. Adler's is a world that bears inflections of Kafka, Levi, and ultimately Sebald - before, during, and after the war - a world that was always about to collapse, before, during, and after the war. And yet, in Filkins's telling, this is a life as a nightmare one doesn't want to shake off." -- André Aciman "Every page of Adler's work was written with the urgent rigor demanded by survivorship, and Peter Filkins - Adler's English-language translator and now his world biographer - honors that daunting mandate. His is a masterly and utterly engrossing study of one of the greatest minds to have been forged in the furnace of mid-twentieth-century Europe." -- Joshua Cohen "Peter Filkins, the translator of three novels by the German-Czech master and Holocaust survivor H.G. Adler, now offers a meticulously researched biography of the writer, who has been compared to Kafka and Robert Musil. Since Adler's novels (and his massive study Theresienstadt 1941-1945) grew out of his own experiences, Filkins was already fluent in the life as well as the work and deftly folds his insights into the larger context of Adler's nightmarish times." -- Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar
Les mer
The story of one of the first and most important writers on the HolocaustAdler's is the story of a generation and of a world now lost to one of history's darkest chaptersAdler's is also the story of a mind that saw how history was shaped by social forces that are still threats
Les mer
Peter Filkins is an award-winning translator and poet. He has translated three novels by H.G. Adler, Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, as well as the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the DAAD, and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock.
Les mer
The story of one of the first and most important writers on the HolocaustAdler's is the story of a generation and of a world now lost to one of history's darkest chaptersAdler's is also the story of a mind that saw how history was shaped by social forces that are still threats
Les mer

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The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to telling the story of those who perished in over two dozen books of fiction, poetry, history, sociology, and religion. And yet for much of his life he remained almost entirely unknown. A writer's writer, a scholar of seminal, pioneering works on the Holocaust, a renowned radio essayist in postwar Germany, a last representative of the Prague Circle of literature headed by Kafka, a key contributor to the prosecution in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Adler was a man of his time whose times lived through him. His is the story of many others, but also one that is singularly his own. And at its heart lies a profound story of love and perseverance amid the loss of his first wife, Gertrud Klepetar, who accompanied her mother to the gas chamber in Auschwitz, and the courtship and extended correspondence with Bettina Gross, a Prague artist who escaped to the Britain, only to later learn that her mother had also been in Theresienstadt with Adler before her eventual death in Auschwitz. His delivery of a lecture in Theresienstadt commemorating Kafka's sixtieth birthday, and with Kafka's favorite sister present; the nurturing of a younger generation of artists and intellectuals, including the Israeli artist Jehuda Bacon and the Serbian novelist Ivan Ivanji; the preservation of Viktor Ullmann's compositions and his opera The Emperor of Atlantis, only to see them premiered decades later to world acclaim; and the penury of postwar life while churning out the novels, poetry, and scholarship that would make his reputation - all of these are part of a life survived in the moment, but dedicated to the future, and that of a man committed to helping human dignity survive in his time and that to come.
Les mer
After surviving Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, H.G. Adler (1910-88), vividly captured the experience in over two dozen books. And yet he remained almost entirely unknown. A writer of modernist novels, pioneering works on the Holocaust, and a last representative of Kafka's Prague, Adler was a man whose times lived through him.
Les mer
Acknowledgements 1 - The Lecture 2 - The Exile 3 - The Wanderers 4 - The Cataclysm 5 - The Flight 6 - The Railroad 7 - The Ghetto 8 - The Human Day 9 - One Thousand Paces 10 - The Letter Writers 11 - The Escape 12 - The Survivor 13 - The Writer 14 - The Witness 15 - The Trial 16 - The Artist 17 - The Poet 18 - The Man Index
Les mer
The research and intellectual commitment behind the biography is formidable...[Filkin] has done H. G. Adler more than justice: he has created a luminous new work that parallels Adler's own practice in its combination of lyrical prose, scrupulous scholarship and humanism.
Les mer
"The research and intellectual commitment behind the biography is formidable...[Filkin] has done H. G. Adler more than justice: he has created a luminous new work that parallels Adler's own practice in its combination of lyrical prose, scrupulous scholarship and humanism." -- Helen Finch, The University of Leeds, TLS "Authoritative, deeply empathetic...a well-deserved celebration of a courageous and determined public intellectual." -- Kirkus Reviews "This book is an intimate, detailed, and emotionally charged look at the life and times of Hans Günther Adler...A deeply moving tribute to a man dedicated to keeping human dignity alive amid some of the greatest depravity the world has ever known, Filkins's abundantly researched, honest book reveals Adler as a wounded, flawed human being but also as a man gifted with inner strength, endurance, and the burning desire to take what he was given and make of his life an inextinguishable light for a world bound by darkness." -- Foreword Reviews "[A] powerful portrait of Adler [...] this vivid biography [creates] a convincing picture of a man who grappled with the unimaginable and, upon his death, was justifiably called righteous" -- Publishers Weekly "I cannot put this book down. I do not want it to end. Adler's is a world that bears inflections of Kafka, Levi, and ultimately Sebald - before, during, and after the war - a world that was always about to collapse, before, during, and after the war. And yet, in Filkins's telling, this is a life as a nightmare one doesn't want to shake off." -- André Aciman "Every page of Adler's work was written with the urgent rigor demanded by survivorship, and Peter Filkins - Adler's English-language translator and now his world biographer - honors that daunting mandate. His is a masterly and utterly engrossing study of one of the greatest minds to have been forged in the furnace of mid-twentieth-century Europe." -- Joshua Cohen "Peter Filkins, the translator of three novels by the German-Czech master and Holocaust survivor H.G. Adler, now offers a meticulously researched biography of the writer, who has been compared to Kafka and Robert Musil. Since Adler's novels (and his massive study Theresienstadt 1941-1945) grew out of his own experiences, Filkins was already fluent in the life as well as the work and deftly folds his insights into the larger context of Adler's nightmarish times." -- Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar
Les mer
The story of one of the first and most important writers on the HolocaustAdler's is the story of a generation and of a world now lost to one of history's darkest chaptersAdler's is also the story of a mind that saw how history was shaped by social forces that are still threats
Les mer
Peter Filkins is an award-winning translator and poet. He has translated three novels by H.G. Adler, Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, as well as the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the DAAD, and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock.
Les mer
The story of one of the first and most important writers on the HolocaustAdler's is the story of a generation and of a world now lost to one of history's darkest chaptersAdler's is also the story of a mind that saw how history was shaped by social forces that are still threats
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780190222383
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
748 gr
Høyde
157 mm
Bredde
239 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
424

Forfatter
Filkins Peter

Om bidragsyterne

Peter Filkins is an award-winning translator and poet. He has translated three novels by H.G. Adler, Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, as well as the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the DAAD, and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock.

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