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1944 diary

Title
1944 diary / Hans Keilson ; translated from the German by Damion Searls.
Author
Keilson, Hans, 1909-2011
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

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TextUse in library JFC 17-727Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
xix, 227 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
Summary
"An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst Hans Keilson: The Death of the Adversary (1959) and Comedy in a Minor Key (1944). With their Chekhovian sympathy for perpetrators and bystanders as much as for victims and resisters, they were, as Francine Prose raved on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, 'masterpieces' by 'a genius.' After Keilson's death at age 101, a diary was found among his papers covering nine months in hiding with members of a Dutch resistance group. It tells the story not only of Keilson's survival but also of the moral and artistic life he was struggling to make for himself. Along with Keilsonesque set pieces--such as an encounter with a pastor who is sick of having to help Jews, and a day locked upstairs during a Nazi roundup in the city--the diary is full of reading notes on Kafka, Rilke, Céline, Buber, and others. Forcibly separated from his wife and young child, Keilson was having a passionate love affair with a younger Jewish woman in hiding a few blocks away, and writing dozens of sonnets to her, struggling with claims of morality and of love. 1944 Diary is a revelatory new angle on an often-told history and the work of one of Europe's most important novelists at a key moment of the twentieth century"--
Uniform Title
Tagebuch 1944. English
Alternative Title
Tagebuch 1944.
Subjects
Note
  • "Originally published in German in 2014 by S. Fischer, Germany, as Tagebuch 1944"--Title page verso.
Contents
Introduction -- People -- 1944 Diary -- Poems -- Afterword.
Call Number
JFC 17-727
ISBN
  • 9780374535599
  • 0374535590
LCCN
2016045036
OCLC
2016045036
Author
Keilson, Hans, 1909-2011, author.
Title
1944 diary / Hans Keilson ; translated from the German by Damion Searls.
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFC 17-727
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