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Description for Fire on Water
Paperback. In this pair of short novels. Arnost Lustig continues his lifelong project of creating a universe - at once concrete and dreamlike - to examine the horrors of the Holocaust and the impossible burden of living as a survivor. Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe S. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
In this pair of short novels. Arnost Lustig continues his lifelong project of creating a universe - at once concrete and dreamlike - to examine the horrors of the Holocaust and the impossible burden of living as a survivor. The Abyss is the fragmented memories of David Wiesenthal, aged twenty, tortured by what he has witnessed and by the knowledge that luck - not skill, not courage, certainly not goodness - separated the survivors from the doomed. He seeks solace remembering the women he's loved or desired, even the one who represents his death. In Porgess, the narrator recounts the ... Read more
In this pair of short novels. Arnost Lustig continues his lifelong project of creating a universe - at once concrete and dreamlike - to examine the horrors of the Holocaust and the impossible burden of living as a survivor. The Abyss is the fragmented memories of David Wiesenthal, aged twenty, tortured by what he has witnessed and by the knowledge that luck - not skill, not courage, certainly not goodness - separated the survivors from the doomed. He seeks solace remembering the women he's loved or desired, even the one who represents his death. In Porgess, the narrator recounts the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Writings from an Unbound Europe S.
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810122208
SKU
V9780810122208
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About Arnost Lustig
Arnost Lustig was born in Czechoslovakia in 1926. After internment in Theresienstadt, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz, he escaped from a train of prisoners bound for Dachau. He returned to Prague to fight for the Czech resistance in 1945 and went into exile following the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Lustig now lives in the United States, where he teaches writing, ... Read more
Reviews for Fire on Water
It occurred to me why I was able to forgive the Italians. but never the Germans. Was it because the Italians never slept on mattresses stuffed with the hair of Luster Leibling or Weltfeind Flusser?