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兀毓丿丕亍: 賯氐丞 丨亘
賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賷賵丕氐賱 爻賳噩乇 睾乇丕賲賴 亘賵囟毓 卮禺賵氐賴 賮賷 賲丌夭賯 賲鬲鬲丕賱賷丞 賵丕囟毓丕賸 賲賱丕賲丨賴丕 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 鬲丨鬲 賲噩賴乇 賲賰亘乇 孬賲 賷鬲兀賲賱賴丕 賵賴賷 鬲鬲毓丕賲賱 賲毓 賲氐丕卅亘 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵丕賱兀爻卅賱丞 丕賱賵噩賵丿賷丞 丕賱賰亘乇賷. 賵鬲毓鬲賲丿 賯氐丞 丕賱丨亘 賴賳丕 毓賱賶 兀囟賱丕毓 賲孬賱鬲 賯氐氐 丕賱丨亘 丕賱鬲賯賱賷丿賷貙 丕賱丨亘賷亘 賵丕賱賲丨亘賵亘 賵丕賱毓卮賷賯 毓賱賶 丕賱賲丨亘丞 賵丕賱鬲囟丨賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賰丕賮兀 亘丕賱禺賷丕賳丞.
賵鬲丿賵乇 兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱噩丿賷丿 兀毓丿丕亍 賯氐丞 丨亘 賮賷 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 丨賵賱 兀丨丿 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 賲賳 丕賱廿亘丕丿丞 丕賱賳丕夭賷丞 廿匕 毓丕卮 賮賷 賲禺夭賳 鬲亘賳 禺賱丕賱 丕賱丨乇亘 賵賯丕賲鬲 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 亘賴 禺丕丿賲鬲賴 賷丕丿賮噩賷丕 睾賷乇 丕賱賷賴賵丿賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕鬲禺匕賴丕 夭賵噩丞 賱賴 賮賷賲丕 亘毓丿 賮賷 兀賲乇賷賰丕 賵賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀孬賳丕亍 賰丕賳 毓賱賶 毓賱丕賯丞 亘丕賲乇兀丞 鬲丿毓賷 賲丕卮丕 賯丿 賳噩鬲 賴賷 兀賷囟丕賸 賲賳 丕賱廿亘丕丿丞 賵賰丕賳 賴賵 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 廿賱賶 賷丕丿賮賷噩丕 亘丕卅毓 賰鬲亘 賲鬲噩賵賱丕賸 賲毓 兀賳賴 賮賷 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賰丕鬲亘 兀噩賷乇 賱丨丕禺丕賲 睾賷乇 兀賲賷賳 賵賴賵 賷丨賷丕 賮賷 噩賳賵亘 丕乇鬲賷丕亘 賲爻鬲賲乇 賵賷兀爻 丿丕卅賲 賵賯丿 鬲毓賯丿鬲 丕賱兀賲賵乇 兀賰孬乇 丨賷賳 噩丕亍鬲 廿賱賶 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 夭賵噩鬲賴 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賮賷 亘賵賱賳丿丕 鬲丕賲丕乇丕 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳 賷馗賳 兀賳賴丕 賲賲賳 兀亘賷丿賵丕.
賵鬲丿賵乇 兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱噩丿賷丿 兀毓丿丕亍 賯氐丞 丨亘 賮賷 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 丨賵賱 兀丨丿 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 賲賳 丕賱廿亘丕丿丞 丕賱賳丕夭賷丞 廿匕 毓丕卮 賮賷 賲禺夭賳 鬲亘賳 禺賱丕賱 丕賱丨乇亘 賵賯丕賲鬲 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 亘賴 禺丕丿賲鬲賴 賷丕丿賮噩賷丕 睾賷乇 丕賱賷賴賵丿賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕鬲禺匕賴丕 夭賵噩丞 賱賴 賮賷賲丕 亘毓丿 賮賷 兀賲乇賷賰丕 賵賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀孬賳丕亍 賰丕賳 毓賱賶 毓賱丕賯丞 亘丕賲乇兀丞 鬲丿毓賷 賲丕卮丕 賯丿 賳噩鬲 賴賷 兀賷囟丕賸 賲賳 丕賱廿亘丕丿丞 賵賰丕賳 賴賵 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 廿賱賶 賷丕丿賮賷噩丕 亘丕卅毓 賰鬲亘 賲鬲噩賵賱丕賸 賲毓 兀賳賴 賮賷 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賰丕鬲亘 兀噩賷乇 賱丨丕禺丕賲 睾賷乇 兀賲賷賳 賵賴賵 賷丨賷丕 賮賷 噩賳賵亘 丕乇鬲賷丕亘 賲爻鬲賲乇 賵賷兀爻 丿丕卅賲 賵賯丿 鬲毓賯丿鬲 丕賱兀賲賵乇 兀賰孬乇 丨賷賳 噩丕亍鬲 廿賱賶 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 夭賵噩鬲賴 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賮賷 亘賵賱賳丿丕 鬲丕賲丕乇丕 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳 賷馗賳 兀賳賴丕 賲賲賳 兀亘賷丿賵丕.
341 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1966
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
535听books1,055听followersIsaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish American author of Jewish descent, noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
His memoir, "A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw", won the U.S. National Book Award in Children's Literature in 1970, while his collection "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" won the U.S. National Book Award in Fiction in 1974.
His memoir, "A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw", won the U.S. National Book Award in Children's Literature in 1970, while his collection "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" won the U.S. National Book Award in Fiction in 1974.
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January 29, 2023
ANDIAMO DALL鈥橝LTRA PARTE, LA VISTA 脠 MIGLIORE DA L脤
Herman e Yadwiga, la sua moglie #2, abitano a Coney Island.
Ah che piacere鈥� che gioia leggere un vero romanzo, senza se e senza ma, un vecchio classico eccellente romanzo鈥�: uno di quei bei romanzi d鈥檃ntan, ben scritti, colti, indifferenti alle mode e ai generi, con molte cose da dire sul mondo ma senza gridarle a ogni giro di pagina, nessun desiderio di scandalo, e magari proprio per questo perturbanti, difficili da dimenticare 鈥� perch茅 i buoni romanzi parlano sempre e soprattutto di noi, cio猫 delle nostre miserie, prendendoci a pesci in faccia ma senza scuse n茅 fronzoli n茅 compiacimenti.
Ron Silver 猫 Herman.
Ho letto quanto precede su un numero dell鈥橢spresso a firma Mario Fortunato.
E siccome Mario Fortunato 猫 persona che stimo e apprezzo, ancor pi霉 come giornalista e critico letterario che come scrittore, e siccome, anche se non siamo sempre d鈥檃ccordo, ho imparato a capire quando quello che dice pu貌 corrispondere al mio sentire, sono alfine approdato al mio primo Isaac Bashevis Singer. Romanzo che 猫 tuttora da molti considerato il suo primo in terra a stelle e strisce, quando in realt脿 ce ne fu un altro prima di questo, Ombre sull鈥橦udson, ugualmente uscito prima a puntate, ugualmente scritto in yiddish e solo pi霉 tardi tradotto in inglese.
Lena Olin 猫 Masha, la moglie #3, dall鈥檌rresistibile sensualit脿.
Mario Fortunato riassume cos矛 la trama:
La storia 猫 quella di Herman, ebreo polacco scampato ai nazisti grazie a una connazionale contadina, Jadwiga, che ha sposato, lasciando con lei l鈥橢uropa per la New York dell鈥檌mmediato dopoguerra. Nella Grande Mela, Herman, uomo senza qualit脿 pur possedendone pi霉 d鈥檜na, conosce e si innamora di Masha, altra figura di scampata ai lager, nevrotica ed esigente, sensuale e minacciosa. In patria, prima dell鈥檕rrore, Herman era sposato con Tamara, da cui aveva due figli, ma tutti e tre sono stati uccisi. Invece no. Tamara ritorna dal passato, per complicare la vita gi脿 complicata del protagonista. Romanzo sull鈥檃more come conflitto e interminabile menzogna, 猫 una delle migliori letture di quest鈥檃nno.
Anjelica Huston 猫 Tamara, la moglie #1, colei che torna dal mondo dei morti.
脠 prima di tutto una storia di ebrei devastati dalla Shoah. Mi hanno colpito molto questi Stati Uniti di fine anni 鈥�40 e inizio anni 鈥�50 popolati da ebrei sopravvissuti ai campi di concentramento e alle camere a gas, che si adoprano per ricostruirsi un鈥檈sistenza, che parte straziata e segnata da tormento spesso insanabile, o se non altro per convivere in qualche modo con ferite e lacerazioni.
Molti di loro anche sopravvissuti a Stalin: riusciti a scappare dai nazisti fuggivano in Russia nella speranza di essere in salvo, e solo troppo tardi scoprivano che invece鈥�
E molti di loro sopravvissuti anche ai campi profughi che li accolsero alla liberazione dai lager, campi dove stazionavano a lungo prima di potersi imbarcare per il Nuovo Mondo.
Singer conosceva bene questo mondo, molto pi霉 di quanto abbia conosciuto la Shoah: perch茅, gi脿 nel 1935 era riuscito a mettersi in salvo raggiungendo il fratello Israel Joshua negli Stati Uniti, e ha quindi, per cos矛 dire, vissuto tutto l鈥檕rrore europeo 鈥榓l sicuro鈥� dall鈥檃ltra parte dell鈥檕ceano. Immagino si sentisse anche lui in qualche modo un sopravvissuto: o forse, soprattutto uno scampato.
Ora rimaneva in piedi, guardando, fuori, la via fiocamente illuminata, le foglie immote sugli alberi, il cielo che rifletteva le luci di Coney Island, i vecchi, uomini e donne, che avevano portato sedie intorno al portone e conversavano a non finire, come fa chi non ha pi霉 nulla in cui sperare.
Herman con Tamara e Yadwiga.
Il protagonista maschile Herman ha tre mogli: 猫 un indeciso? Uno che non sa dire di no?
A me viene piuttosto da pensare che sia un uomo che sente molto forte il fascino dell鈥檜niverso femminile, fino forse al punto di subirlo. E lo capisco bene, dal mio punto di vista non fa una piega.
Il film ha lo stesso titolo del romanzo, 猫 del 1989, diretto da Paul Mazursky, che qui si vede sul set insieme a Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston e Margaret Sophie Stein.
Herman mi pare molto poco paragonabile all鈥橴lrich del capolavoro di Musil, e trovo che tirare in ballo a ogni pi猫 sospinto l鈥檈spressione 鈥渦omo senza qualit脿鈥� sia degno del flaubertiano leggendario Dictionnaire des id茅es re莽ues (un po鈥� come l鈥檃tmosfera 鈥渒afkiana鈥�).
脠 indubbio che le virt霉 di Herman non spicchino particolarmente: la sua fantasia e carica erotica probabilmente 鈥� la sua conoscenza della filosofia, della religione e del pensiero umano in generale, anche 鈥� la sua bont脿, quasi sicuramente. Accanto a tutto ci貌 va sottolineato quanto sia persona che sembra essenzialmente lasciarsi vivere, non scegliere, non decidere, incapace di prendere decisioni, non solo in ambito sentimentale, ma anche nella vita in genere (vedi alla voce lavoro). Un pusillanime?
Herman ha vissuto tre anni nascosto in un pagliaio, rischiando la vita, perch茅 i nazisti erano tenaci, ostinati, continuavano a cercare gli ebrei anche in mezzo alla paglia. Ha perso un mondo, il suo mondo: pu貌 riuscire a trovarne un altro, uno nuovo?
Ha ragione Mario Fortunato, leggere questo romanzo 猫 stata una gioia. Pura bellezza.
Andiamo dall鈥檃ltra parte, la vista 猫 migliore da l矛 猫 l鈥檜ltima battuta dello splendido film splendido del polacco Pawel Pawlikowski 鈥淐old War鈥�. E questa 猫 l鈥檌nquadratura finale.
Herman e Yadwiga, la sua moglie #2, abitano a Coney Island.
Ah che piacere鈥� che gioia leggere un vero romanzo, senza se e senza ma, un vecchio classico eccellente romanzo鈥�: uno di quei bei romanzi d鈥檃ntan, ben scritti, colti, indifferenti alle mode e ai generi, con molte cose da dire sul mondo ma senza gridarle a ogni giro di pagina, nessun desiderio di scandalo, e magari proprio per questo perturbanti, difficili da dimenticare 鈥� perch茅 i buoni romanzi parlano sempre e soprattutto di noi, cio猫 delle nostre miserie, prendendoci a pesci in faccia ma senza scuse n茅 fronzoli n茅 compiacimenti.
Ron Silver 猫 Herman.
Ho letto quanto precede su un numero dell鈥橢spresso a firma Mario Fortunato.
E siccome Mario Fortunato 猫 persona che stimo e apprezzo, ancor pi霉 come giornalista e critico letterario che come scrittore, e siccome, anche se non siamo sempre d鈥檃ccordo, ho imparato a capire quando quello che dice pu貌 corrispondere al mio sentire, sono alfine approdato al mio primo Isaac Bashevis Singer. Romanzo che 猫 tuttora da molti considerato il suo primo in terra a stelle e strisce, quando in realt脿 ce ne fu un altro prima di questo, Ombre sull鈥橦udson, ugualmente uscito prima a puntate, ugualmente scritto in yiddish e solo pi霉 tardi tradotto in inglese.
Lena Olin 猫 Masha, la moglie #3, dall鈥檌rresistibile sensualit脿.
Mario Fortunato riassume cos矛 la trama:
La storia 猫 quella di Herman, ebreo polacco scampato ai nazisti grazie a una connazionale contadina, Jadwiga, che ha sposato, lasciando con lei l鈥橢uropa per la New York dell鈥檌mmediato dopoguerra. Nella Grande Mela, Herman, uomo senza qualit脿 pur possedendone pi霉 d鈥檜na, conosce e si innamora di Masha, altra figura di scampata ai lager, nevrotica ed esigente, sensuale e minacciosa. In patria, prima dell鈥檕rrore, Herman era sposato con Tamara, da cui aveva due figli, ma tutti e tre sono stati uccisi. Invece no. Tamara ritorna dal passato, per complicare la vita gi脿 complicata del protagonista. Romanzo sull鈥檃more come conflitto e interminabile menzogna, 猫 una delle migliori letture di quest鈥檃nno.
Anjelica Huston 猫 Tamara, la moglie #1, colei che torna dal mondo dei morti.
脠 prima di tutto una storia di ebrei devastati dalla Shoah. Mi hanno colpito molto questi Stati Uniti di fine anni 鈥�40 e inizio anni 鈥�50 popolati da ebrei sopravvissuti ai campi di concentramento e alle camere a gas, che si adoprano per ricostruirsi un鈥檈sistenza, che parte straziata e segnata da tormento spesso insanabile, o se non altro per convivere in qualche modo con ferite e lacerazioni.
Molti di loro anche sopravvissuti a Stalin: riusciti a scappare dai nazisti fuggivano in Russia nella speranza di essere in salvo, e solo troppo tardi scoprivano che invece鈥�
E molti di loro sopravvissuti anche ai campi profughi che li accolsero alla liberazione dai lager, campi dove stazionavano a lungo prima di potersi imbarcare per il Nuovo Mondo.
Singer conosceva bene questo mondo, molto pi霉 di quanto abbia conosciuto la Shoah: perch茅, gi脿 nel 1935 era riuscito a mettersi in salvo raggiungendo il fratello Israel Joshua negli Stati Uniti, e ha quindi, per cos矛 dire, vissuto tutto l鈥檕rrore europeo 鈥榓l sicuro鈥� dall鈥檃ltra parte dell鈥檕ceano. Immagino si sentisse anche lui in qualche modo un sopravvissuto: o forse, soprattutto uno scampato.
Ora rimaneva in piedi, guardando, fuori, la via fiocamente illuminata, le foglie immote sugli alberi, il cielo che rifletteva le luci di Coney Island, i vecchi, uomini e donne, che avevano portato sedie intorno al portone e conversavano a non finire, come fa chi non ha pi霉 nulla in cui sperare.
Herman con Tamara e Yadwiga.
Il protagonista maschile Herman ha tre mogli: 猫 un indeciso? Uno che non sa dire di no?
A me viene piuttosto da pensare che sia un uomo che sente molto forte il fascino dell鈥檜niverso femminile, fino forse al punto di subirlo. E lo capisco bene, dal mio punto di vista non fa una piega.
Il film ha lo stesso titolo del romanzo, 猫 del 1989, diretto da Paul Mazursky, che qui si vede sul set insieme a Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston e Margaret Sophie Stein.
Herman mi pare molto poco paragonabile all鈥橴lrich del capolavoro di Musil, e trovo che tirare in ballo a ogni pi猫 sospinto l鈥檈spressione 鈥渦omo senza qualit脿鈥� sia degno del flaubertiano leggendario Dictionnaire des id茅es re莽ues (un po鈥� come l鈥檃tmosfera 鈥渒afkiana鈥�).
脠 indubbio che le virt霉 di Herman non spicchino particolarmente: la sua fantasia e carica erotica probabilmente 鈥� la sua conoscenza della filosofia, della religione e del pensiero umano in generale, anche 鈥� la sua bont脿, quasi sicuramente. Accanto a tutto ci貌 va sottolineato quanto sia persona che sembra essenzialmente lasciarsi vivere, non scegliere, non decidere, incapace di prendere decisioni, non solo in ambito sentimentale, ma anche nella vita in genere (vedi alla voce lavoro). Un pusillanime?
Herman ha vissuto tre anni nascosto in un pagliaio, rischiando la vita, perch茅 i nazisti erano tenaci, ostinati, continuavano a cercare gli ebrei anche in mezzo alla paglia. Ha perso un mondo, il suo mondo: pu貌 riuscire a trovarne un altro, uno nuovo?
Ha ragione Mario Fortunato, leggere questo romanzo 猫 stata una gioia. Pura bellezza.
Andiamo dall鈥檃ltra parte, la vista 猫 migliore da l矛 猫 l鈥檜ltima battuta dello splendido film splendido del polacco Pawel Pawlikowski 鈥淐old War鈥�. E questa 猫 l鈥檌nquadratura finale.
July 31, 2024
Me gust贸 la forma, pero no me satisfizo el conjunto. Me ha parecido una novela con demasiados altibajos, un tanto deshilvanada y, sobre todo, desaprovechada. La posibilidad de la felicidad es un don que se tiene o no se tiene. Esta historia de dos personas que no pose铆an ese don podr铆a haber dado mucho m谩s de s铆.
May 19, 2024
Notes on 2nd reading
Herman Broder survives the Holocaust by hiding in a hayloft in Poland. When the war ends he marries the Polish peasant, Yadwiga, who hid him from the Nazis. Together they move to New York City, where the present action of the novel finds him suffering PTSD and thinking the Nazis are around every corner. Sex seems to be the only treatment for his death saturated soul. He is a hound, a chauvinist, and a bigamist.
He married Yadwiga after getting word that his wife, Tamara, had been murdered by the Nazis, along with their children. But then Tamara reappears in New York, without the children. The third wife, Masha, is the one he loves and who is furiously jealous of the peasant in Coney Island. All the main characters, not just Herman, have death saturated souls and are more or less demented by their violent experiences. Masha and Tamara 鈥� who unlike Herman both suffered in the death camps 鈥� upbraid Herman with a vitriol that must be read to be appreciated. The humor 鈥� to the extent a Holocaust survivor story can have one 鈥� is when the wives discover each other.
Here's another of Herman Broder's problems. He is stripped of all faith 鈥� for what God could have permitted the Holocaust 鈥� yet he is deeply marked by the traditions of Judaism.
"His pondering always brought him to the same conclusion: God (or whatever He may be) was certainly wise, but there was no sign of His mercy. If a God of mercy did exist in the heavenly hierarchy, then he was only a helpless godlet, a kind of heavenly Jew among the heavenly Nazis. As long as one does not have the courage to leave this world, one can only hide and try to get by...."(p. 123)
Singer was from a family of rabbis. An element of his writing is the literature and ritual of Judaism. In this book Herman is ghost writer (for an ambitious New York rabbi) with an on-again off-again relationship with the faith he had studied for so many years in Poland.
"At night he had taken stock of himself. He was deceiving Masha, Masha was deceiving him. Both had the same goal: to get as much pleasure as possible out of life in the few years left before darkness, the final end, an eternity without reward, without punishment, without will, would be upon them. Behind this Weltanschauung festered deception and the principle of "might is right." One could escape from this only by turning to God. And to what faith could he repair? Not to a faith which had, in the name of God, organized inquisitions, crusades, bloody wars. There was only one escape for him: to go back to the Torah, the Gemara, the Jewish books. What about his doubt? Even if one were to doubt the existence of oxygen, one would still have to breathe. One could deny gravity, but one would still have to walk on the ground. Since he was suffocating without God and the Torah, he must serve God and study the Torah. He rocked back and forth, intoning. . . . (p. 170)
Sad end.
鈥斺赌�
Notes on 1st reading
It's 1948 or so, soon after the birth of Israel. Herman Broder, who is Jewish, lives in New York with the shiksa who saved him from the Holocaust. This woman, Yadwiga, a Polish peasant with calloused hands, hid him in a hayloft for four years. She brought him food. She carried away his waste. Naturally, when the war ends and he hears the terrible news that his wife and children were gunned down in a trench, he acts upon his gratitude and marries Yadwiga. He brings her to New York City. They settle in Coney Island. Herman, who has never been at ease in this world, even before the Nazis, is death saturated. And the sex act may be the only thing that can convince him he actually exists, for he is delusion-ridden, expecting Nazi tanks to appear on Broadway at any moment.
Moreover, he has what the psychologists call survival guilt. He regrets that he did not die in the war. Why is he alive? He is extremely unhappy, anxiety-ridden, and given to PTSD delusions in which the Nazis have invaded or are about to invade New York. His response to this condition is sex, lots of it. He sleeps around as much as he can. In addition to Yadwiga, in Brooklyn, he has Masha, in the Bronx. Both Masha and her mother are survivors, too. Eventually, by the novel's end, Herman is sleeping with and married to three women. Wherever he goes he plans an escape route, just in case. His experience during the war has rendered him Godless, yet he finds work writing devotional books and sermons for a local Rabbi, his training in the Talmud being deep. Most of the time however he is going from one woman's bed to the next. Yet he refuses to have any more children. No one, he believes, should have children in a world which allows them to be gunned down in trenches. That frustrated or blocked fertility/virility is the book's central metaphor.
There's something a little old fashioned about the book which I liked. The narrative is straightforward chronology. Singer avoids the use of flashbacks for the most part. Too, the story is steeped in the old-world shtetl values in which, of course, marriage was a holy and sacred trust. So I think some of the book worked as comedy for a previous generation in a way it no longer works for most present-day readers. Herman's fervid polygamy is a sign of his despair. But even with that bit of cultural comedy neutralized, there is much to impress. Singer has a compressed style which (translated from the Yiddish) is charmingly sustained. His spot-on characterizations run very deep. Enemies: A Love Story is a superb novel.
Herman Broder survives the Holocaust by hiding in a hayloft in Poland. When the war ends he marries the Polish peasant, Yadwiga, who hid him from the Nazis. Together they move to New York City, where the present action of the novel finds him suffering PTSD and thinking the Nazis are around every corner. Sex seems to be the only treatment for his death saturated soul. He is a hound, a chauvinist, and a bigamist.
He married Yadwiga after getting word that his wife, Tamara, had been murdered by the Nazis, along with their children. But then Tamara reappears in New York, without the children. The third wife, Masha, is the one he loves and who is furiously jealous of the peasant in Coney Island. All the main characters, not just Herman, have death saturated souls and are more or less demented by their violent experiences. Masha and Tamara 鈥� who unlike Herman both suffered in the death camps 鈥� upbraid Herman with a vitriol that must be read to be appreciated. The humor 鈥� to the extent a Holocaust survivor story can have one 鈥� is when the wives discover each other.
Here's another of Herman Broder's problems. He is stripped of all faith 鈥� for what God could have permitted the Holocaust 鈥� yet he is deeply marked by the traditions of Judaism.
"His pondering always brought him to the same conclusion: God (or whatever He may be) was certainly wise, but there was no sign of His mercy. If a God of mercy did exist in the heavenly hierarchy, then he was only a helpless godlet, a kind of heavenly Jew among the heavenly Nazis. As long as one does not have the courage to leave this world, one can only hide and try to get by...."(p. 123)
Singer was from a family of rabbis. An element of his writing is the literature and ritual of Judaism. In this book Herman is ghost writer (for an ambitious New York rabbi) with an on-again off-again relationship with the faith he had studied for so many years in Poland.
"At night he had taken stock of himself. He was deceiving Masha, Masha was deceiving him. Both had the same goal: to get as much pleasure as possible out of life in the few years left before darkness, the final end, an eternity without reward, without punishment, without will, would be upon them. Behind this Weltanschauung festered deception and the principle of "might is right." One could escape from this only by turning to God. And to what faith could he repair? Not to a faith which had, in the name of God, organized inquisitions, crusades, bloody wars. There was only one escape for him: to go back to the Torah, the Gemara, the Jewish books. What about his doubt? Even if one were to doubt the existence of oxygen, one would still have to breathe. One could deny gravity, but one would still have to walk on the ground. Since he was suffocating without God and the Torah, he must serve God and study the Torah. He rocked back and forth, intoning. . . . (p. 170)
Sad end.
鈥斺赌�
Notes on 1st reading
It's 1948 or so, soon after the birth of Israel. Herman Broder, who is Jewish, lives in New York with the shiksa who saved him from the Holocaust. This woman, Yadwiga, a Polish peasant with calloused hands, hid him in a hayloft for four years. She brought him food. She carried away his waste. Naturally, when the war ends and he hears the terrible news that his wife and children were gunned down in a trench, he acts upon his gratitude and marries Yadwiga. He brings her to New York City. They settle in Coney Island. Herman, who has never been at ease in this world, even before the Nazis, is death saturated. And the sex act may be the only thing that can convince him he actually exists, for he is delusion-ridden, expecting Nazi tanks to appear on Broadway at any moment.
Moreover, he has what the psychologists call survival guilt. He regrets that he did not die in the war. Why is he alive? He is extremely unhappy, anxiety-ridden, and given to PTSD delusions in which the Nazis have invaded or are about to invade New York. His response to this condition is sex, lots of it. He sleeps around as much as he can. In addition to Yadwiga, in Brooklyn, he has Masha, in the Bronx. Both Masha and her mother are survivors, too. Eventually, by the novel's end, Herman is sleeping with and married to three women. Wherever he goes he plans an escape route, just in case. His experience during the war has rendered him Godless, yet he finds work writing devotional books and sermons for a local Rabbi, his training in the Talmud being deep. Most of the time however he is going from one woman's bed to the next. Yet he refuses to have any more children. No one, he believes, should have children in a world which allows them to be gunned down in trenches. That frustrated or blocked fertility/virility is the book's central metaphor.
There's something a little old fashioned about the book which I liked. The narrative is straightforward chronology. Singer avoids the use of flashbacks for the most part. Too, the story is steeped in the old-world shtetl values in which, of course, marriage was a holy and sacred trust. So I think some of the book worked as comedy for a previous generation in a way it no longer works for most present-day readers. Herman's fervid polygamy is a sign of his despair. But even with that bit of cultural comedy neutralized, there is much to impress. Singer has a compressed style which (translated from the Yiddish) is charmingly sustained. His spot-on characterizations run very deep. Enemies: A Love Story is a superb novel.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 11, 2019
Too much spoilers in reviews, but also in the synopsis, almost ruined this one for me.
1/3 of the reviews should be flagged! There's one reviewer who wrote, without inserting a spoiler alert : "The climax of the story is when he..."
I'm never going to read reviews again, before reading a work of fiction.
So if I don't "like" your review of a fiction book that's on my to read list, you now know why!
The story is rather far-fetched and dark, and the main character is extremely pathetic. Nonetheless it kept my interest, because it was so well-written. A story about human behavior, wartime memories, moral bankruptcy and destructive relationships.
1/3 of the reviews should be flagged! There's one reviewer who wrote, without inserting a spoiler alert : "The climax of the story is when he..."
I'm never going to read reviews again, before reading a work of fiction.
So if I don't "like" your review of a fiction book that's on my to read list, you now know why!
The story is rather far-fetched and dark, and the main character is extremely pathetic. Nonetheless it kept my interest, because it was so well-written. A story about human behavior, wartime memories, moral bankruptcy and destructive relationships.
December 29, 2023
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January 7, 2024
馃晭 Singer explained that in writing this novel he interviewed a number of Holocaust survivors he knew since he himself had not gone through that hell as they had.
Behavior is so erratic in the novel I thought of how much shock and anxiety and PTSD the survivors of that genocide must have wrestled with the rest of their lives. Husbands annihilated. Wives annihilated. Children annihilated. Entire extended families wiped out. So, people married again, had new children, started new lives. But it could not have been easy. Memories of loss and trauma and fear do not just disappear. And I wondered about other genocides or near genocides in recent history (like Rwanda or Kosovo). How do people pick up and carry on when other human beings have ripped out their hearts?
The novel is so well written. Singer is such the story teller, poet and philosopher. Characters fight with God. They see snowfall and think of the snow falling in their souls. An animal is ritually slaughtered to celebrate a religious ceremony and they ask: what kind of God demands the killing of innocent animals for his honor and worship?
It left me ill at ease. The male lead, Herman, has three women in his life, hurts them all, makes a mess of everything, yet is obsessed with one. The obsession reminded me unpleasantly of Philip Carey鈥檚 situation in Somerset Maugham鈥檚 Of Human Bondage, where there are four women, but he obsesses over the one who destroys him, Mildred Rogers.
However Herman, in this novel, is as destructive, or more destructive, than the woman he is consumed with. Not because he is vicious. But because he wants to do the right thing, over and over again, and agonizes that he does not do the right thing, over and over again. Part of this inability I attribute to the emotional and moral wreckage that occurred from hiding in a barn from Nazi patrols for three years, almost completely isolated, and constantly in fear for his life.
馃晭 Nevertheless, Singer keeps you reading because the story is compelling, the characters crackle with life, the musings of Herman are so fascinating, and you wonder what will happen to them all, these survivors who have become important to you.
Behavior is so erratic in the novel I thought of how much shock and anxiety and PTSD the survivors of that genocide must have wrestled with the rest of their lives. Husbands annihilated. Wives annihilated. Children annihilated. Entire extended families wiped out. So, people married again, had new children, started new lives. But it could not have been easy. Memories of loss and trauma and fear do not just disappear. And I wondered about other genocides or near genocides in recent history (like Rwanda or Kosovo). How do people pick up and carry on when other human beings have ripped out their hearts?
The novel is so well written. Singer is such the story teller, poet and philosopher. Characters fight with God. They see snowfall and think of the snow falling in their souls. An animal is ritually slaughtered to celebrate a religious ceremony and they ask: what kind of God demands the killing of innocent animals for his honor and worship?
It left me ill at ease. The male lead, Herman, has three women in his life, hurts them all, makes a mess of everything, yet is obsessed with one. The obsession reminded me unpleasantly of Philip Carey鈥檚 situation in Somerset Maugham鈥檚 Of Human Bondage, where there are four women, but he obsesses over the one who destroys him, Mildred Rogers.
However Herman, in this novel, is as destructive, or more destructive, than the woman he is consumed with. Not because he is vicious. But because he wants to do the right thing, over and over again, and agonizes that he does not do the right thing, over and over again. Part of this inability I attribute to the emotional and moral wreckage that occurred from hiding in a barn from Nazi patrols for three years, almost completely isolated, and constantly in fear for his life.
馃晭 Nevertheless, Singer keeps you reading because the story is compelling, the characters crackle with life, the musings of Herman are so fascinating, and you wonder what will happen to them all, these survivors who have become important to you.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 6, 2019
Confusi e infelici.
Sopravvissuti alla shoah. Esuli polacchi in America. Paese che accoglie ma che non 猫 casa.
Vivere in una dimensione onirica, in cui si 猫 quasi incapaci di distinguere tra presente e passato. Un passato che non d脿 tregua, un passato che ossessiona.
Non essere pi霉 in grado di rispettare i propri valori. Non essere pi霉 certi di niente. E continuare a sentire un senso di colpa e di inadeguatezza in tutte le situazioni tanto da essere incapace di negarsi ad alcuno.
Ed 猫 cos矛 che il protagonista di questa storia, pur non volendo nuocere a nessuno, si trova contemporaneamente impegnato con tre donne.
La moglie, creduta morta nella shoa, improvvisamente ricomparsa come un fantasma dal passato.
La cameriera non ebrea, che con la sua devozione lo ha salvato da morte certa, sposata per gratitudine in seconde nozze.
L'amante, anch'essa ebrea e sopravvissuta alla shoah.
Si trova ad essere il ghost writer di un rabbino e scrivere per lui di un Dio compassionevole in cui non crede, a professare una religione che pur appartenendogli ed essendo parte di lui, non riesce pi霉 a condividere.
Un libro talmente disperato e pessimista che mi sembra impossibile parlarne con entusiasmo.
"La mia teoria 猫 che il genere umano stia diventando peggiore, non migliore. Credo, per cos矛 dire, in un'evoluzione al contrario. L'ultimo uomo sulla terra sar脿 un criminale e un pazzo "
Sopravvissuti alla shoah. Esuli polacchi in America. Paese che accoglie ma che non 猫 casa.
Vivere in una dimensione onirica, in cui si 猫 quasi incapaci di distinguere tra presente e passato. Un passato che non d脿 tregua, un passato che ossessiona.
Non essere pi霉 in grado di rispettare i propri valori. Non essere pi霉 certi di niente. E continuare a sentire un senso di colpa e di inadeguatezza in tutte le situazioni tanto da essere incapace di negarsi ad alcuno.
Ed 猫 cos矛 che il protagonista di questa storia, pur non volendo nuocere a nessuno, si trova contemporaneamente impegnato con tre donne.
La moglie, creduta morta nella shoa, improvvisamente ricomparsa come un fantasma dal passato.
La cameriera non ebrea, che con la sua devozione lo ha salvato da morte certa, sposata per gratitudine in seconde nozze.
L'amante, anch'essa ebrea e sopravvissuta alla shoah.
Si trova ad essere il ghost writer di un rabbino e scrivere per lui di un Dio compassionevole in cui non crede, a professare una religione che pur appartenendogli ed essendo parte di lui, non riesce pi霉 a condividere.
Un libro talmente disperato e pessimista che mi sembra impossibile parlarne con entusiasmo.
"La mia teoria 猫 che il genere umano stia diventando peggiore, non migliore. Credo, per cos矛 dire, in un'evoluzione al contrario. L'ultimo uomo sulla terra sar脿 un criminale e un pazzo "
November 29, 2016
螤慰位蠉 蠅蟻伪委伪 畏 纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 Singer. 螌渭慰蟻蠁畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪, 蟽蠀渭蟺伪胃蔚委蟼 蟺蟻蠅蟿伪纬蠅谓喂蟽蟿苇蟼.
August 26, 2014
This novel achieves a remarkable feat in that it makes a love quadrangle among four ex-pat holocaust survivors seem both traumatic and sexy, rather than traumatic and even more traumatic. Herman is the (un)fortunate bigamist caught between his faithful peasant wife Yadwiga and runaway soul Masha as he struggles to adapt to his life of wartime memories and apparent freedom while ghostwriting Talmudic materials for a rabbi, despite having hurled God in the bucket鈥攕ort of. Later in the novel, his presumed-dead wife Tamara turns up to complete the quadrangle, making Herman鈥檚 struggle for sanity, stability, identity, whatever, even grizzlier. Singer鈥檚 novel is melancholy, tender, powerful and extremely entertaining and touches upon a fascinating historical milieu unfamiliar to this reader. Sensational prose.
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January 7, 2021From antic to tragic. Or pathetic -- as in pathos. But in the ordinary sense, too. Pathetic what happened to these people whose lives were upended by the Holocaust and by each other.
The set-up is that a Jewish man, Herman, living in New York with his wife, the Polish woman who saved him from the Nazis during the war, while conducting an affair with another survivor and working ... well, better not tell too much of the plot, since its unfolding is part of the fun and or shock value. The people are strange and entirely real, emerging without any magical realism as the plot unfolds. No magic needed since reality is strange enough on its own.
The picture of the time and place is real, too, as though you could reach out and touch it. Not so unfamiliar, although at the time the novel is set I was just a baby. Things have changed and sometimes remained the same.
I did notice that for most of the book, the women are seen through the lens of Herman, which suddenly changes at the tail end of the story.
Had no idea how it was going to end. Utterly unpredictable. Not a conventional ending but maybe a modicum of redemption, for some, at least. I could have used a tad more but the author must be saying nope it's not going to happen.
I looked the novel up on Wikipedia to check the date at which it was set since I didn't remember. The answer is 1949. I also discovered it was first published in The Jewish Daily Forward in 1966, then published in English in '72. Got a bad review from The New York Times! The book has also been made into a play, a movie, and an opera!
I found out elsewhere that although the author wrote in Yiddish he supervised his English translations. No translator listed. Early on, I was surprised, since the prose gives no indication of by being by anyone other than a native speaker.
The prose is occasionally poetic.
About two parakeets:
...and philosophical:
and biblical:
Trying to figure out Reality:
and
and
I was recently reading another book, , where the characters were saved by discipline and organization.
And maybe more than one book on that point of order. The hapless Herman -- would he have resisted order in any universe? The terrible circumstances he survived didn't form him but exacerbated his characteristics.
I thought Singer wrote folk-sounding tales about shtetls. A lot I knew!
Addendum: decided to clear my rating. I didn't have the hard copy this time and I don't fully trust the narration in this case. Moreover, was listening in less than ideal circumstances. I think I may have missed out on the use of words, vocabulary and nuances, and, overall, on the full impact of the writing.
The set-up is that a Jewish man, Herman, living in New York with his wife, the Polish woman who saved him from the Nazis during the war, while conducting an affair with another survivor and working ... well, better not tell too much of the plot, since its unfolding is part of the fun and or shock value. The people are strange and entirely real, emerging without any magical realism as the plot unfolds. No magic needed since reality is strange enough on its own.
The picture of the time and place is real, too, as though you could reach out and touch it. Not so unfamiliar, although at the time the novel is set I was just a baby. Things have changed and sometimes remained the same.
I did notice that for most of the book, the women are seen through the lens of Herman, which suddenly changes at the tail end of the story.
Had no idea how it was going to end. Utterly unpredictable. Not a conventional ending but maybe a modicum of redemption, for some, at least. I could have used a tad more but the author must be saying nope it's not going to happen.
I looked the novel up on Wikipedia to check the date at which it was set since I didn't remember. The answer is 1949. I also discovered it was first published in The Jewish Daily Forward in 1966, then published in English in '72. Got a bad review from The New York Times! The book has also been made into a play, a movie, and an opera!
I found out elsewhere that although the author wrote in Yiddish he supervised his English translations. No translator listed. Early on, I was surprised, since the prose gives no indication of by being by anyone other than a native speaker.
The prose is occasionally poetic.
About two parakeets:
He placed himself firmly next to her on the perch, where they remained motionless til sunup, perhaps getting a taste of the great rest that comes with death, the redeemer of men and animals.
...and philosophical:
Masha was the best argument Herman knew for Schopenhauer's thesis that intelligence is nothing more than a servant of blind will.
and biblical:
Like the lean cows of Pharaoh's dream, the present had swallowed eternity.
Trying to figure out Reality:
Half of his people had been tortured and murdered, and the other half were giving parties.
and
In all the turmoil, there existed a plan engineered by the Powers who controlled human affairs.
and
He was willing to let the Powers lead him, whether they were called Chance or Providence or Tamara.
I was recently reading another book, , where the characters were saved by discipline and organization.
And maybe more than one book on that point of order. The hapless Herman -- would he have resisted order in any universe? The terrible circumstances he survived didn't form him but exacerbated his characteristics.
I thought Singer wrote folk-sounding tales about shtetls. A lot I knew!
Addendum: decided to clear my rating. I didn't have the hard copy this time and I don't fully trust the narration in this case. Moreover, was listening in less than ideal circumstances. I think I may have missed out on the use of words, vocabulary and nuances, and, overall, on the full impact of the writing.
June 2, 2019
I found this book in Antikvariaatti Hagelstam in Helsinki. I had no introduction to this author but for a few reviews here on GR.
Turned out to be a great choice.
The main character in the story appears to have resigned himself to somewhere between destined depression and suicidal actions.
The Wife
Herman is separated from his family during the Holocaust. He believes his children and wife Tamara were shot dead.
The Maid
He is hidden in a hayloft by Yadwiga their maid. Yadwiga is Polish and hence escapes suspicion and is able to keep him there for three years - feeding and taking care of him while keeping him out of the enemy鈥檚 sight. And she was their maid when life was normal. Three years later the war ends and they get married. And move to America ( New York).
The Mistress ( second wife )
Herman is not in control of himself ( throughout the book I felt ). He falls in love with Masha. She pushes him to get married as her husband has given her a divorce.
The Wife Redux ( possible third wife )
Meanwhile Tamara re appears -she was not shot but managed to escape and come to America.
The rest of the story goes on to an unexpected ending.
At every interaction with each - wife, maid and mistress - it appears that Herman will end up choosing one of them and dropping the other two. And in each instance something happens that prevents it.
I found the story very detailed and well written. The characters were created to possibly show circumstances people found themselves in during and after the Holocaust.
While I liked the writing style though the conversations appeared abrupt and not realistic given the situations described. The three women who gave themselves yo him despite so many seeming infidelities from Herman appear surprisingly cheerful and sprightly to him and do not want to leave him. I found this odd. Does this really happen ? Maybe. This is from another era. And possibly this is how things happened.
I got this for one Euro in a used book store and that鈥檚 possibly why it was so interesting too.
Turned out to be a great choice.
The main character in the story appears to have resigned himself to somewhere between destined depression and suicidal actions.
The Wife
Herman is separated from his family during the Holocaust. He believes his children and wife Tamara were shot dead.
The Maid
He is hidden in a hayloft by Yadwiga their maid. Yadwiga is Polish and hence escapes suspicion and is able to keep him there for three years - feeding and taking care of him while keeping him out of the enemy鈥檚 sight. And she was their maid when life was normal. Three years later the war ends and they get married. And move to America ( New York).
The Mistress ( second wife )
Herman is not in control of himself ( throughout the book I felt ). He falls in love with Masha. She pushes him to get married as her husband has given her a divorce.
The Wife Redux ( possible third wife )
Meanwhile Tamara re appears -she was not shot but managed to escape and come to America.
The rest of the story goes on to an unexpected ending.
At every interaction with each - wife, maid and mistress - it appears that Herman will end up choosing one of them and dropping the other two. And in each instance something happens that prevents it.
I found the story very detailed and well written. The characters were created to possibly show circumstances people found themselves in during and after the Holocaust.
While I liked the writing style though the conversations appeared abrupt and not realistic given the situations described. The three women who gave themselves yo him despite so many seeming infidelities from Herman appear surprisingly cheerful and sprightly to him and do not want to leave him. I found this odd. Does this really happen ? Maybe. This is from another era. And possibly this is how things happened.
I got this for one Euro in a used book store and that鈥檚 possibly why it was so interesting too.
March 23, 2011
I loved this book because it scared the apathy out of me about living as only still being there, and letting anything that happens happen (que sera, sera gone horribly wrong). I've done nothing as the shit hits the fan. Unfortunately, wake-up calls don't last long before I hit the snooze button once again...
I loved this book because it made me laugh. (It's scary that I can view my own hopelessly absurd mistakes as, "Oh, yeah, I'm quite a character," with an affectionate head shake. See, lack of reality again. Then the overwhelming self-hatred comes back to play. It's that not-real feeling that nothing is gonna matter anyway.) Laugh about one of the worst fates that could lie ahead: dying inside. I'm not laughing, I'm crying.
Why care about anything? You can die tomorrow. I have no idea why anybody else should care. The answers aren't coming, not to the best of my star-gazing ability (is that an asteroid readying to destroy everything?) or shoe-gazing (the ground is opening up to swallow me whole). I still do and yet I could still understand Herman's inability to move forward. Because feeling something isn't the same as planning for the future.
I loved this book because it made me laugh. (It's scary that I can view my own hopelessly absurd mistakes as, "Oh, yeah, I'm quite a character," with an affectionate head shake. See, lack of reality again. Then the overwhelming self-hatred comes back to play. It's that not-real feeling that nothing is gonna matter anyway.) Laugh about one of the worst fates that could lie ahead: dying inside. I'm not laughing, I'm crying.
Why care about anything? You can die tomorrow. I have no idea why anybody else should care. The answers aren't coming, not to the best of my star-gazing ability (is that an asteroid readying to destroy everything?) or shoe-gazing (the ground is opening up to swallow me whole). I still do and yet I could still understand Herman's inability to move forward. Because feeling something isn't the same as planning for the future.
August 13, 2018
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鬲賱丕夭賲賳丕 兀賷囟丕賸 爻丕乇丞 賵卮賵卮賷賱 賵賷丕丿賮賷噩丕 賮賷 孬賱丕孬 兀夭賲賳丞 亘孬賱丕孬 兀爻賲丕亍 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 - 賵兀賳丕 兀鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 乇賵丕賷丕鬲賴 丕賱孬賱丕孬丞 賵賱賷爻鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮賯胤 - 賮丿丕卅賲丕賸 賲丕 賱毓亘鬲 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賵賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賯氐丞 丿賵乇 丕賱賮賱丕丨丞 丕賱亘爻賷胤丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨亘 亘廿禺賱丕氐 賵亘亘乇丕亍丞 貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 賷爻鬲毓噩亘 賴乇賲丕賳 賰賷賮 賱廿賲乇兀丞 亘賴匕賴 丕賱亘爻丕胤丞 兀賳 鬲毓賷卮 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨賷丕丞
賵毓賳丿賳丕 賴賳丕 兀賷囟丕賸 - 鬲丕賲丕乇丕 - 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 丕賱噩丿賷丿丞 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 爻賳噩乇 賵丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 鬲禺乇亘賴丕 丕賱賲匕亘丨丞 賵賱賲 鬲賯鬲賱 丕賱丿賷賳 亘丿丕禺賱賴丕 賮賱丕 夭丕賱鬲 賷賴賵丿賷丞 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲丕 賲乇鬲 亘賴 賲賳 賲兀爻丕丞
賵賱丿賷賳丕 賲丕卮丕 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱鬲賷 噩毓賱鬲賴丕 丕賱賲匕亘丨丞 爻丕禺胤丞 毓賱賷 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賵丕賱丿賷賳 賵賲鬲禺亘胤丞 丕賱乇兀賷 賵丕賱賮賰乇 貙 鬲賱賰 賴賷 賲賱丕賰 賲賵鬲 賴乇賲丕賳 貙 賵卮賷胤丕賳賴 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷賰賮 毓賳 廿睾賵丕卅賴 賵丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賷爻鬲睾賳賷 毓賳賴 貙 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱廿噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞 鬲爻鬲毓乇囟 賱賳丕 丨賷丕丞 丕賱賷賴賵丿 賮賷 丕賲乇賷賰丕 亘毓丿 丕賱賴噩乇丞 賵丕賱賱噩賵亍 賵兀賷囟丕賸 鬲噩毓賱賳丕 賳賱賯賷 丕賱兀爻卅賱丞 亘丿賵賳 丕噩賵亘丞 賰毓丕丿丞 爻賳噩乇 貙 賵兀賳 兀賰孬乇 賲丕 賷毓噩亘賳賷 賮賷 廿爻丨賯 兀賳賴 賷乇賷 兀賳 丕賱賰賱 賲匕賳亘 賵兀賳 丕賱賰賱 丨賷賵丕賳 貙 賵兀賳 丕賱卮乇 賰丕賲賳 亘丿丕禺賱賳丕 貙 賵兀賳賳丕 囟丨丕賷丕 賱兀賳賮爻賳丕 賯亘賱 兀賳 賳賰賵賳 囟丨丕賷丕 賱賱睾賷乇 .. 賵賯丿 噩丕亍鬲 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賰毓丕丿鬲賴 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 .. 爻丐丕賱 亘丿賵賳 廿噩丕亘丞 貙 賵賲氐賷乇 賲噩賴賵賱
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賰賱 丕賱亘卮乇 賳丕夭賷賵賳 賮賷 爻賱賵賰賴賲 鬲噩丕賴 丕賱賲禺賱賵賯丕鬲 貙 廿匕 賷賲孬賱 丕賱睾乇賵乇 丕賱匕賷 賷鬲毓丕賲賱 亘賴 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賲毓 丕賱兀賳賵丕毓 丕賱兀禺乇賷 兀卮丿 丕賱賳馗乇賷丕鬲 丕賱毓賳氐乇賷丞 鬲胤乇賮丕賸 貙 賵賷噩爻丿 丕賱賲亘丿丕 丕賱賮丕卅賱 亘兀賳 丕賱丨賯 賱賱賯賵丞
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廿賳 丕賱賯丕乇卅 賱賲丕 賵氐賱 廿賱賷賳丕 丨鬲賷 丕賱兀賳 賲賳 廿亘丿丕毓丕鬲 亘丕卮賷賮賷爻 賲賳匕 丕賱毓亘丿 賵賷毓賯賵亘賴 賲乇賵乇丕賸 亘卮賵卮丕 賵鬲賵爻鬲賰賴丕 賵氐賵賱丕賸 賱賴乇賲丕賳賳丕 貙 賷爻鬲卮毓乇 兀賳賳丕 兀賲丕賲 賳爻賱 賵丕丨丿 賱兀爻乇丞 賵丕丨丿丞 丕賱噩丿 賷毓賯賵亘 賵賴賲 兀丨賮丕丿賴 賮廿賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賱鬲鬲卮丕亘賴 賰孬賷乇丕賸 賱丿乇噩丞 丕賳賰 鬲卮毓乇 兀賳賴賲 賷鬲賳丕爻禺賵賳 賮賷 兀夭賲賳丞 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 貙 賵賱賰賳 賷亘乇毓 廿爻丨賯 賮賷 廿馗賴丕乇 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 鬲丨鬲 丕賱馗乇賵賮 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賲賳 賲匕亘丨丞 丕賱賯賵夭丕賯 廿賱賷 賲丕 賯亘賱 丕賱丨乇亘 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷丞 丕賱孬丕賳賷丞 廿賱賷 賲丕 亘毓丿 賲匕亘丨丞 丕賱賷賴賵丿 賲賳 丕賱賳丕夭賷賷賳
賷噩毓賱賳丕 廿爻丨賯 爻賳噩乇 賳賱賯賷 賳馗乇丞 毓賱賷 丕賱賷賴賵丿賷 賮賷 賰賱 夭賲賳 賵賲丕 賷丐孬乇 賮賷賴 賴匕丕 丕賱夭賲賳
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丨鬲賷 賱賵 廿乇鬲丕亘 丕賱賲乇亍 賮賷 賵噩賵丿 丕賱兀賰爻噩賷賳 貙 賮廿賳賴 賷馗賱 賷鬲賳賮爻 貙 賵賯丿 賷賳賰乇 丕賱賲乇亍 丕賱噩丕匕亘賷丞 貙 賱賰賳賴 賷爻賷乇 毓賱賷 丕賱兀乇囟
賵亘賲丕 兀賳賴 賷禺鬲賳賯 亘丿賵賳 丕賱廿賱賴 賵丕賱鬲賵乇丕丞 貙 賮廿賳 毓賱賷賴 兀賳 賷胤賷毓 丕賱廿賱賴 賵賷丿乇爻 丕賱鬲賵乇丕丞
丕賱賷賴賵丿 貙 丕賱賲卮鬲鬲 毓賯賱賷丕賸 賯亘賱 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賲卮鬲鬲 噩睾乇丕賮賷丕賸
賴丐賱丕亍 賷賴賵丿 爻賳噩乇 貙 鬲乇賷 丿丕卅賲丕賸 兀賳賴賲 兀卮禺丕氐 兀乇賴賯鬲賴賲 丕賱賮賱爻賮丞 賵丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賮賷 丿賷賳 賲賳睾賱賯 賵賲噩鬲賲毓 賲鬲卮丿丿
賮兀賲丕 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 丕賱卮禺氐 賲丐賲賳 兀賵 賲鬲夭賳丿賯 .. 賮鬲乇賷 賲賳賴賲 丕賱卮鬲丕鬲 丕賱毓賯賱賷 賵丕賱廿賳丨乇丕賮丕鬲 丕賱禺賱賯賷丞 丿丕卅賲丕賸 賲賳 亘胤賱 乇賵丕賷丞 爻賳噩乇
丕賱匕賷 賷囟毓 卮禺賵氐賴 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲噩賴乇 賲賳鬲馗乇丕賸 賲賳賴賲 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲賴賲 賵乇丿賵丿 兀賮毓丕賱賴賲 貙 賲丕匕丕 鬲賮毓賱 丕賱廿亘丕丿丞 亘兀卮禺丕氐 責
賴賱 賷馗賱 丕賱廿賷賲丕賳 亘丿丕禺賱 兀卮禺丕氐 乇兀賵丕 丕賱賲賵鬲 兀賲丕賲賴賲 賵賮賷 兀賵賱丕丿賴賲 賵兀賴賱賴賲 貙 兀賲丕 賰賲丕 賳乇賷 賷乇賵賳 丕賱廿賱賴 賲噩乇丿 廿賱賴 爻丕丿賷 賲鬲毓丕賱賷 賷睾囟 丕賱賳馗乇 毓賳 賲丕 賷丨丿孬 貙 賵賲賳 賴賳丕 鬲鬲亘賱賵乇 兀賮賰丕乇 賴乇賲丕賳 丕賱鬲卮丕丐賲賷丞 丕賱亘毓賷丿丞 毓賳 丕賱丿賷賳 丕賱賯乇賷亘丞 廿賱賷 丕賱噩丨賵丿 貙 賮賴賵 賷毓賷卮 賮賷 賲噩鬲賲毓 丨賷賵丕賳賷 賷馗賳賴 亘丿賵賳 廿賱賴 貙 賵賱賰賳賴 賱丕 賷乇賷 賴匕丕 兀賷囟丕賸 賮賴賵 丿丕卅賲丕賸 賮賷 賳賮爻賴 賷卮毓乇 亘賵噩賵丿 丕賱丿賷賳 賵丕賱廿賱賴 賵賷賱噩兀 賱賴賲
賮賷 賯氐丞 胤乇賷賮丞 貙 賯氐丞 卮鬲丕鬲 乇噩賱 賮賷 亘賱丕丿 兀賲乇賷賰丕 亘賷賳 孬賱丕孬 賳爻丕亍 鬲亘丿賵 丕賱賯氐丞 賲爻賱爻賱 兀賵 賮賷賱賲 乇賵賲丕賳爻賷 噩賲賷賱
賵賱賰賳 丨匕丕乇 兀賳 鬲賯毓 賮賷 丕賱卮乇賰 貙 賮廿賳 爻賳丨乇 賱賷爻 亘賴匕賴 丕賱爻匕丕噩丞 賵丕賱賲乇丕賴賯丞 貙 兀賳 丿丕卅賲丕賸 爻賳噩乇 賮賷 賯氐氐賴 賷賰鬲亘 賰賱 賲丕 賷乇賷丿 貙 賷胤毓賲賴丕 亘賰賱 兀賮賰丕乇賴 丕賱賮賱爻賮賷丞 賵丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 賵丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 賵丕賱賱丕丿賷賳賷丞 賮賷 睾胤丕丐賴丕 丕賱乇賵賲丕賳爻賷 賵賴賷 兀亘毓丿 賲賳 鬲賰賵賳 毓賳 賯氐丞 乇賵賲丕賳爻賷丞 貙 賳丨賳 賳乇賷 賴賳丕 丕賱賮賯乇 賵丕賱賲賵鬲 賵丕賱睾乇亘丞 賵丕賱卮鬲丕鬲
賷亘乇毓 爻賳噩乇 丿丕卅賲丕賸 賮賷 鬲賵馗賷賮 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賮賷 賯氐鬲賴 貙 賵賲孬賱 兀賳 賷毓賯賵亘 賷賱丕夭賲賳丕 孬賱丕孬 賲乇丕鬲 亘孬賱丕孬 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賵兀爻賲丕亍 賮賷 兀賲丕賰賳 賵兀夭賲賳丞 賲禺鬲賱賮丞
鬲賱丕夭賲賳丕 兀賷囟丕賸 爻丕乇丞 賵卮賵卮賷賱 賵賷丕丿賮賷噩丕 賮賷 孬賱丕孬 兀夭賲賳丞 亘孬賱丕孬 兀爻賲丕亍 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 - 賵兀賳丕 兀鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 乇賵丕賷丕鬲賴 丕賱孬賱丕孬丞 賵賱賷爻鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮賯胤 - 賮丿丕卅賲丕賸 賲丕 賱毓亘鬲 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賵賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賯氐丞 丿賵乇 丕賱賮賱丕丨丞 丕賱亘爻賷胤丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨亘 亘廿禺賱丕氐 賵亘亘乇丕亍丞 貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 賷爻鬲毓噩亘 賴乇賲丕賳 賰賷賮 賱廿賲乇兀丞 亘賴匕賴 丕賱亘爻丕胤丞 兀賳 鬲毓賷卮 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨賷丕丞
賵毓賳丿賳丕 賴賳丕 兀賷囟丕賸 - 鬲丕賲丕乇丕 - 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 丕賱噩丿賷丿丞 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 爻賳噩乇 賵丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 鬲禺乇亘賴丕 丕賱賲匕亘丨丞 賵賱賲 鬲賯鬲賱 丕賱丿賷賳 亘丿丕禺賱賴丕 賮賱丕 夭丕賱鬲 賷賴賵丿賷丞 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲丕 賲乇鬲 亘賴 賲賳 賲兀爻丕丞
賵賱丿賷賳丕 賲丕卮丕 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱鬲賷 噩毓賱鬲賴丕 丕賱賲匕亘丨丞 爻丕禺胤丞 毓賱賷 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賵丕賱丿賷賳 賵賲鬲禺亘胤丞 丕賱乇兀賷 賵丕賱賮賰乇 貙 鬲賱賰 賴賷 賲賱丕賰 賲賵鬲 賴乇賲丕賳 貙 賵卮賷胤丕賳賴 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷賰賮 毓賳 廿睾賵丕卅賴 賵丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賷爻鬲睾賳賷 毓賳賴 貙 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱廿噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞 鬲爻鬲毓乇囟 賱賳丕 丨賷丕丞 丕賱賷賴賵丿 賮賷 丕賲乇賷賰丕 亘毓丿 丕賱賴噩乇丞 賵丕賱賱噩賵亍 賵兀賷囟丕賸 鬲噩毓賱賳丕 賳賱賯賷 丕賱兀爻卅賱丞 亘丿賵賳 丕噩賵亘丞 賰毓丕丿丞 爻賳噩乇 貙 賵兀賳 兀賰孬乇 賲丕 賷毓噩亘賳賷 賮賷 廿爻丨賯 兀賳賴 賷乇賷 兀賳 丕賱賰賱 賲匕賳亘 賵兀賳 丕賱賰賱 丨賷賵丕賳 貙 賵兀賳 丕賱卮乇 賰丕賲賳 亘丿丕禺賱賳丕 貙 賵兀賳賳丕 囟丨丕賷丕 賱兀賳賮爻賳丕 賯亘賱 兀賳 賳賰賵賳 囟丨丕賷丕 賱賱睾賷乇 .. 賵賯丿 噩丕亍鬲 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賰毓丕丿鬲賴 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 .. 爻丐丕賱 亘丿賵賳 廿噩丕亘丞 貙 賵賲氐賷乇 賲噩賴賵賱
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賰賱 丕賱亘卮乇 賳丕夭賷賵賳 賮賷 爻賱賵賰賴賲 鬲噩丕賴 丕賱賲禺賱賵賯丕鬲 貙 廿匕 賷賲孬賱 丕賱睾乇賵乇 丕賱匕賷 賷鬲毓丕賲賱 亘賴 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賲毓 丕賱兀賳賵丕毓 丕賱兀禺乇賷 兀卮丿 丕賱賳馗乇賷丕鬲 丕賱毓賳氐乇賷丞 鬲胤乇賮丕賸 貙 賵賷噩爻丿 丕賱賲亘丿丕 丕賱賮丕卅賱 亘兀賳 丕賱丨賯 賱賱賯賵丞
March 10, 2018
廿賳 鬲丕賲丕乇丕 毓賱賷 丨賯...廿賳賳丕 賱賲 賳毓丿 兀丨賷丕亍 賲賳匕 夭賲賳 胤賵賷賱.
乇賵丕賷丞 氐毓亘丞 ...賲乇賴賯丞 賵賲乇亘賰丞..亘卮禺氐賷丕鬲 毓亘孬賷丞 丨賰賲 毓賱賷賴丕 亘丕賱鬲賷賴..卮禺氐賷丕鬲 鬲丿賲乇鬲 賵鬲丨胤賲鬲 賲賳匕 夭賲賳 胤賵賷賱. 賱賲 賷鬲亘賯 賲賳賴丕 爻賵賷 兀卮亘丕丨 毓賱賷 賯賷丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞.
乇賵丕賷丞 氐毓亘丞 ...賲乇賴賯丞 賵賲乇亘賰丞..亘卮禺氐賷丕鬲 毓亘孬賷丞 丨賰賲 毓賱賷賴丕 亘丕賱鬲賷賴..卮禺氐賷丕鬲 鬲丿賲乇鬲 賵鬲丨胤賲鬲 賲賳匕 夭賲賳 胤賵賷賱. 賱賲 賷鬲亘賯 賲賳賴丕 爻賵賷 兀卮亘丕丨 毓賱賷 賯賷丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞.
January 30, 2025
鈥淐osa c鈥櫭� scritto sul giornale?鈥�
鈥淥h, hanno dichiarato una tregua, ma non durer脿. Ricominceranno presto a combattere, quelle bestie. Non ne hanno mai abbastanza.鈥�
鈥淓 dove succede?鈥�
鈥淚n Corea, in Cina, non hai che da scegliere.鈥�
鈥淟a radio ha detto che Hitler 猫 ancora vivo.鈥�
鈥淪e un Hitler 猫 morto, un milione di altri 猫 pronto a prendere il suo posto.鈥�
Fuggito a New York dopo la guerra, l鈥檃ntieroe Herman Broder, polacco senza qualit脿, inquieto, timoroso, pessimista, codardo, tormentato da sensi di colpa, scrittore di sermoni per un sedicente rabbino, sempre senza soldi e impegnato a lottare tenacemente per la sopravvivenza, si ritrova ficcato in un ginepraio senza via d鈥檜scita, conteso da tre donne: la nuova moglie, l鈥檃mante, la ex moglie che credeva morta e che invece riappare. 脠 l鈥檈spediente per raccontarci le vite di alcuni ebrei scampati all鈥檕locausto e avventurosamente riparati in America, un鈥橝merica dura, gelida, sporca, inospitale, apparentemente popolata solo da moltitudini di profughi ebrei. Tutti i personaggi, ossessionati dalle persecuzioni subite, sono straordinari: sia quelli tormentati da interrogativi esistenziali e votati al suicidio, sia quelli ancora pieni di vitalit脿 e passione, di voglia di amare, di litigare, di combattere, di concepire figli, di raccontare barzellette, di sperare nel comunismo. Sono meravigliose storie di sopravvivenza che si intrecciano, monologhi e dialoghi pieni di disperazione, eppure sempre venati di ironia, perfino, qua e l脿, di umorismo. Un perfetto compendio del cosiddetto stile ebraico, e una scrittura che 猫 come un fiume in piena, un torrente che travolge il lettore, come travolge Broder, fino al rush che porta allo splendido finale.
Leggendo queste pagine non si pu貌 fare a meno di amare i protagonisti; poi ascolti certe voci di oggi, ebrei importanti, intellettuali, stimati, non solo israeliani, che non vogliono saperne di concedere la pace e la vita ai palestinesi, e non capisci pi霉 nulla di cosa sono gli esseri umani.
鈥淥h, hanno dichiarato una tregua, ma non durer脿. Ricominceranno presto a combattere, quelle bestie. Non ne hanno mai abbastanza.鈥�
鈥淓 dove succede?鈥�
鈥淚n Corea, in Cina, non hai che da scegliere.鈥�
鈥淟a radio ha detto che Hitler 猫 ancora vivo.鈥�
鈥淪e un Hitler 猫 morto, un milione di altri 猫 pronto a prendere il suo posto.鈥�
Fuggito a New York dopo la guerra, l鈥檃ntieroe Herman Broder, polacco senza qualit脿, inquieto, timoroso, pessimista, codardo, tormentato da sensi di colpa, scrittore di sermoni per un sedicente rabbino, sempre senza soldi e impegnato a lottare tenacemente per la sopravvivenza, si ritrova ficcato in un ginepraio senza via d鈥檜scita, conteso da tre donne: la nuova moglie, l鈥檃mante, la ex moglie che credeva morta e che invece riappare. 脠 l鈥檈spediente per raccontarci le vite di alcuni ebrei scampati all鈥檕locausto e avventurosamente riparati in America, un鈥橝merica dura, gelida, sporca, inospitale, apparentemente popolata solo da moltitudini di profughi ebrei. Tutti i personaggi, ossessionati dalle persecuzioni subite, sono straordinari: sia quelli tormentati da interrogativi esistenziali e votati al suicidio, sia quelli ancora pieni di vitalit脿 e passione, di voglia di amare, di litigare, di combattere, di concepire figli, di raccontare barzellette, di sperare nel comunismo. Sono meravigliose storie di sopravvivenza che si intrecciano, monologhi e dialoghi pieni di disperazione, eppure sempre venati di ironia, perfino, qua e l脿, di umorismo. Un perfetto compendio del cosiddetto stile ebraico, e una scrittura che 猫 come un fiume in piena, un torrente che travolge il lettore, come travolge Broder, fino al rush che porta allo splendido finale.
Leggendo queste pagine non si pu貌 fare a meno di amare i protagonisti; poi ascolti certe voci di oggi, ebrei importanti, intellettuali, stimati, non solo israeliani, che non vogliono saperne di concedere la pace e la vita ai palestinesi, e non capisci pi霉 nulla di cosa sono gli esseri umani.
February 5, 2017
賰丕賳 賮賷賴 賲卮賴丿 賮賷 賮賷賱賲 Fury
亘賷賳 Brad pitt
賵
Shia LaBeouf
丕賱賲卮賴丿 賰丕賱鬲丕賱賷:
Brad: 賱賵 兀丨亘 丕賱賮乇丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞貙 賮丨亘 丕賱乇亘 賱賷爻 亘丿丕禺賱賴貨 賱兀賳 賰賱 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞 卮賴賵丞貙 卮賴賵丞 丕賱噩爻丿貙 賵卮賴賵丞 丕賱毓賷賵賳貙 賵卮賴賵丞 賲噩丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賱賷爻 賱丨亘 丕賱乇亘貙 亘賱 賱丨亘 丕賱丿賳賷丕..
Shia: 丕賱丿賳賷丕 賲賱匕丕鬲賴丕 鬲夭賵賱貙 賱賰賳 賲賳 賷丐丿賷 廿乇丕丿丞 丕賱乇亘 爻賷毓賷卮 賱賱兀亘丿.
Brad: 賱賱兀亘丿.
丿丕 賷毓鬲亘乇 賲卮賴丿 毓賳 亘毓囟 丕賱兀爻卅賱丞 丕賱賵噩賵丿賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷爻兀賱賴丕 賰賱 賮乇丿 賱賳賮爻賴 毓賳丿賲丕 賷賲乇 亘亘毓囟 丕賱馗乇賵賮 丕賱氐毓亘丞 賵丕賱賯丕爻賷丞貙 賵賴賳丕 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賮賷賱賲 賰丕賳賵丕 賷賲乇賵賳 亘賳賮爻 馗乇賵賮 亘胤賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵賴賷 丕賱丨乇亘..
丕賱亘胤賱 賴賳丕 賰丕賳 賷賴賵丿賷 賵鬲毓乇囟 賱賱馗賱賲 丕賱賳丕夭賷 賵賯丿 兀孬乇 毓賱賷賴 亘丕賯賷 丨賷丕鬲賴
賮賯丿 毓丕卮 孬賱丕孬 爻賳賷賳 賮賷 賲禺夭賳 鬲亘賳貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 鬲胤毓賲賴 賴賷 禺丕丿賲丞 賱賴 賲賳 賯亘賱...
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丿賵乇 毓賳 丕賱亘胤賱 賵賯丿 鬲夭賵噩 賲賳 丕賱亘賳鬲 丕賱鬲賷 兀胤毓賲鬲賴 賵毓丕賲賱鬲賴 賲毓丕賲賱丞 丨爻賳丞 賵賰丕賳鬲 鬲賮囟賱賴 毓賱賶 賳賮爻賴丕
賵賱賰賳賴 兀丨亘 兀禺乇賶 丕賱毓卮賷賯丞 賵賰丕賳鬲 爻賷卅丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞 賮賯丿 賰乇賴鬲賴丕
賵賱賰賳 賮賷 馗乇賵賮 睾丕賲囟丞 丕賰鬲卮賮 丕賱亘胤賱 兀賳 夭賵噩鬲賴 丕賱兀賵賱賶 毓賱賶 賯賷丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞
賮兀氐亘丨 賷賲賱賰 夭賵噩鬲賷賳 賵毓卮賷賯丞 賵賴匕丕 賲禺丕賱賮 賮賷 丕賱丿賷賳 丕賱賷賴賵丿賷
賮丕賱夭賵噩丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賷賴賵丿賷丞 賵丕賱孬丕賳賷丞 賱賷爻鬲 毓賱賶 丕賱丿賷丕賳丞 丕賱賷賴賵丿賷丞 賵賱賰賳賴丕 丿禺賱鬲 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 兀噩賱 兀賳 鬲賲賱賰 胤賮賱 賲賳 丕賱亘胤賱
賵丕賱孬丕孬賱丞 丕賱毓卮賷賯丞 鬲夭賵噩賴丕 兀賷囟賸丕
賯氐丞 丨亘 賲孬賱 兀賷 賯氐丞 鬲丨鬲賵賷 毓賱賶 丕賱丨賷乇丞 賮賷 丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇
亘賷賳 丕賱夭賵噩鬲賷賳 賵丕賱毓卮賷賯丞 賵賱賰賳 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 鬲賱賷賯 亘丕賱噩賲賷毓
賵廿匕丕 鬲丨丿孬賳丕 毓賳 丕賱胤乇賮 丕賱丌禺乇 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵賴賲 毓賲 賵夭賵噩丞 毓賲 丕賱夭賵噩丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丕賱匕賷賳 乇囟賵丕 亘賲丕 丨丿孬 賵鬲禺胤賵丕 賴匕賴 丕賱毓賯亘丞 賵賴賷 丕賱丨乇亘 賵賳鬲丕卅噩賴丕
丨賷孬 賰丕賳 賷鬲爻兀賱 丕賱亘胤賱 毓賳 賰賷賮 賱賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賳丕爻 丕賱匕賷賳 毓丕卮賵丕 丨賷丕鬲賴賲 賮賷 丿賲丕乇 兀賳 賷丐賲賳賵丕 亘丕丕賱廿賱賴 賵乇丨賲鬲賴責
賲賳 丕賱賲賲賰賳 兀賳 賳噩丿 丕賱廿噩丕亘丞 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賮賷賱賲
賵賴賵 賮賷賱賲 Life of Pie
I've lost my family!
I've lost everything!
I surrender!
What more do you want?
God, thank you for giving me my life.
乇賵丕賷丞 噩賲賷賱丞 噩丿賸丕 賵賯丿 兀丨亘亘鬲賴丕 賰孬賷乇賸丕
賵丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 乇丕卅毓丞
賵鬲丨鬲賵賷 毓賱賶 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱兀爻卅賱丞 丕賱賵噩賵丿賷丞.
亘賷賳 Brad pitt
賵
Shia LaBeouf
丕賱賲卮賴丿 賰丕賱鬲丕賱賷:
Brad: 賱賵 兀丨亘 丕賱賮乇丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞貙 賮丨亘 丕賱乇亘 賱賷爻 亘丿丕禺賱賴貨 賱兀賳 賰賱 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞 卮賴賵丞貙 卮賴賵丞 丕賱噩爻丿貙 賵卮賴賵丞 丕賱毓賷賵賳貙 賵卮賴賵丞 賲噩丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賱賷爻 賱丨亘 丕賱乇亘貙 亘賱 賱丨亘 丕賱丿賳賷丕..
Shia: 丕賱丿賳賷丕 賲賱匕丕鬲賴丕 鬲夭賵賱貙 賱賰賳 賲賳 賷丐丿賷 廿乇丕丿丞 丕賱乇亘 爻賷毓賷卮 賱賱兀亘丿.
Brad: 賱賱兀亘丿.
丿丕 賷毓鬲亘乇 賲卮賴丿 毓賳 亘毓囟 丕賱兀爻卅賱丞 丕賱賵噩賵丿賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷爻兀賱賴丕 賰賱 賮乇丿 賱賳賮爻賴 毓賳丿賲丕 賷賲乇 亘亘毓囟 丕賱馗乇賵賮 丕賱氐毓亘丞 賵丕賱賯丕爻賷丞貙 賵賴賳丕 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賮賷賱賲 賰丕賳賵丕 賷賲乇賵賳 亘賳賮爻 馗乇賵賮 亘胤賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵賴賷 丕賱丨乇亘..
丕賱亘胤賱 賴賳丕 賰丕賳 賷賴賵丿賷 賵鬲毓乇囟 賱賱馗賱賲 丕賱賳丕夭賷 賵賯丿 兀孬乇 毓賱賷賴 亘丕賯賷 丨賷丕鬲賴
賮賯丿 毓丕卮 孬賱丕孬 爻賳賷賳 賮賷 賲禺夭賳 鬲亘賳貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 鬲胤毓賲賴 賴賷 禺丕丿賲丞 賱賴 賲賳 賯亘賱...
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丿賵乇 毓賳 丕賱亘胤賱 賵賯丿 鬲夭賵噩 賲賳 丕賱亘賳鬲 丕賱鬲賷 兀胤毓賲鬲賴 賵毓丕賲賱鬲賴 賲毓丕賲賱丞 丨爻賳丞 賵賰丕賳鬲 鬲賮囟賱賴 毓賱賶 賳賮爻賴丕
賵賱賰賳賴 兀丨亘 兀禺乇賶 丕賱毓卮賷賯丞 賵賰丕賳鬲 爻賷卅丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞 賮賯丿 賰乇賴鬲賴丕
賵賱賰賳 賮賷 馗乇賵賮 睾丕賲囟丞 丕賰鬲卮賮 丕賱亘胤賱 兀賳 夭賵噩鬲賴 丕賱兀賵賱賶 毓賱賶 賯賷丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞
賮兀氐亘丨 賷賲賱賰 夭賵噩鬲賷賳 賵毓卮賷賯丞 賵賴匕丕 賲禺丕賱賮 賮賷 丕賱丿賷賳 丕賱賷賴賵丿賷
賮丕賱夭賵噩丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賷賴賵丿賷丞 賵丕賱孬丕賳賷丞 賱賷爻鬲 毓賱賶 丕賱丿賷丕賳丞 丕賱賷賴賵丿賷丞 賵賱賰賳賴丕 丿禺賱鬲 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 兀噩賱 兀賳 鬲賲賱賰 胤賮賱 賲賳 丕賱亘胤賱
賵丕賱孬丕孬賱丞 丕賱毓卮賷賯丞 鬲夭賵噩賴丕 兀賷囟賸丕
賯氐丞 丨亘 賲孬賱 兀賷 賯氐丞 鬲丨鬲賵賷 毓賱賶 丕賱丨賷乇丞 賮賷 丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇
亘賷賳 丕賱夭賵噩鬲賷賳 賵丕賱毓卮賷賯丞 賵賱賰賳 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 鬲賱賷賯 亘丕賱噩賲賷毓
賵廿匕丕 鬲丨丿孬賳丕 毓賳 丕賱胤乇賮 丕賱丌禺乇 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵賴賲 毓賲 賵夭賵噩丞 毓賲 丕賱夭賵噩丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丕賱匕賷賳 乇囟賵丕 亘賲丕 丨丿孬 賵鬲禺胤賵丕 賴匕賴 丕賱毓賯亘丞 賵賴賷 丕賱丨乇亘 賵賳鬲丕卅噩賴丕
丨賷孬 賰丕賳 賷鬲爻兀賱 丕賱亘胤賱 毓賳 賰賷賮 賱賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賳丕爻 丕賱匕賷賳 毓丕卮賵丕 丨賷丕鬲賴賲 賮賷 丿賲丕乇 兀賳 賷丐賲賳賵丕 亘丕丕賱廿賱賴 賵乇丨賲鬲賴責
賲賳 丕賱賲賲賰賳 兀賳 賳噩丿 丕賱廿噩丕亘丞 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賮賷賱賲
賵賴賵 賮賷賱賲 Life of Pie
I've lost my family!
I've lost everything!
I surrender!
What more do you want?
God, thank you for giving me my life.
乇賵丕賷丞 噩賲賷賱丞 噩丿賸丕 賵賯丿 兀丨亘亘鬲賴丕 賰孬賷乇賸丕
賵丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 乇丕卅毓丞
賵鬲丨鬲賵賷 毓賱賶 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱兀爻卅賱丞 丕賱賵噩賵丿賷丞.
March 29, 2025
Titulo: Enemigos: Una historia de amor
Autor: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Motivo de lectura: #PopSugarReadingChallenge2025
Lectura / Relectura: Lectura
F铆sico / 贰濒别肠迟谤贸苍颈肠辞: 贰濒别肠迟谤贸苍颈肠辞
Mi edici贸n: 鈥�
笔耻苍迟耻补肠颈贸苍: 3/5
Estos libros son dif铆ciles de calificar, por que b谩sicamente es la miseria humana en todo su esplendor.
Los personajes son todos desagradables, en distinta medida, ya sea desde la posici贸n de victimario y hasta la posici贸n de victimizaci贸n.
Pero si tuviera que decir, el protagonista se lleva el premio de mayor desagradable. Herman es un hip贸crita religioso, en el sentido de las acciones moralistas, cuando algo involucra placer, no tiene problemas en involucrarse hasta en situaciones que traspasan todo l铆mite, pero cuando llega el momento de ser responsable con sus acciones, recuerda a Dios y se escuda en eso.
Si alguien es religioso genuinamente..perfecto, pero ser religioso cuando te conviene...ah铆 ya estamos hablando de otra cosa, de la utilizaci贸n de la religi贸n como m茅todo de escape a la responsabilidad.
La trama es b谩sicamente girar en un loop de tristeza, de desaz贸n, de desesperanza.
El libro est谩 bien escrito, yo no logre conectar con la historia.
Autor: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Motivo de lectura: #PopSugarReadingChallenge2025
Lectura / Relectura: Lectura
F铆sico / 贰濒别肠迟谤贸苍颈肠辞: 贰濒别肠迟谤贸苍颈肠辞
Mi edici贸n: 鈥�
笔耻苍迟耻补肠颈贸苍: 3/5
Estos libros son dif铆ciles de calificar, por que b谩sicamente es la miseria humana en todo su esplendor.
Los personajes son todos desagradables, en distinta medida, ya sea desde la posici贸n de victimario y hasta la posici贸n de victimizaci贸n.
Pero si tuviera que decir, el protagonista se lleva el premio de mayor desagradable. Herman es un hip贸crita religioso, en el sentido de las acciones moralistas, cuando algo involucra placer, no tiene problemas en involucrarse hasta en situaciones que traspasan todo l铆mite, pero cuando llega el momento de ser responsable con sus acciones, recuerda a Dios y se escuda en eso.
Si alguien es religioso genuinamente..perfecto, pero ser religioso cuando te conviene...ah铆 ya estamos hablando de otra cosa, de la utilizaci贸n de la religi贸n como m茅todo de escape a la responsabilidad.
La trama es b谩sicamente girar en un loop de tristeza, de desaz贸n, de desesperanza.
El libro est谩 bien escrito, yo no logre conectar con la historia.
March 25, 2024
As for love, these professionals used the word as if it were capable of clear definition - when no one had yet discovered its true meaning.
I do not know how I felt about this book, is it three stars? Five stars? No stars? I am still not sure.
Enemies, A Love Story has a really compelling premise -- Herman is a Jewish WWII refugee living in New York. He spent the war hidden away in the hay barn of his once housemaid Yadwiga. After the war, the two marry and immigrate to America, where he works doing research for a Rabbi. Unsurprisingly, Herman is still very much effected by the war. Everywhere he goes he is planning an escape route, picking out potential weapons, plotting out how he would survive, where he would hide.
But Herman also has Masha, his mistress, who lives with her devout mother in the Bronx. Like Herman, Masha is experiencing post-war PTSD. When the German's invaded Poland, Masha was separated from her mother and sent to live in a Jewish Ghetto. She cannot sleep, she is smoking constantly, she drinks heavily, she talks of death.
But Herman also had a life before the invasion of Poland, one in which he was already married and had two children. Herman had heard that his wife, Tamara, and their two children had been killed, shot by a German bullet, but when Tamara unexpectedly turns up in New York looking for him, things get very complicated.
This is truly a story about Herman trying to find himself after the atrocities of the war. In each woman, we see a different possible version of Herman. Yadwiga represents duty -- she saved Herman's life and kept him alive during the war, and for that he owes her a life debt. Yadwiga converts to Judaism, she focuses on becoming a devout honorable wife to Herman. After the war she turns to religion.
Masha represents assimilation and love (or at least lust -- because despite what the blurb reads I do not believe Herman actually loves any of these women). Masha is a modern woman, she wants to live her life as the American's do, she wants to forget about the war and the horrors that still haunt her. After the war she turns to the future.
Finally Tamara. Throughout the book she is referred to as Herman's 'angel'. She is, perhaps, not a representation of a different version of Herman, but rather a personification of Herman's own guilt, and his voice of reason.
It is clear which path Herman thinks he should take, time and again he swears off his earthly pleasures (including his affair with the captivating Masha) and tries to focus on his work and his wife, but time and again he returns to Masha. Herman clearly has no desire to live a life rooted in the past -- this is made evident by the fact that he never attempted to find Tamara after the war, and perhaps also why he cannot fully commit to Yadwiga- she reminds him too much of those years spent in hiding.
Herman is constantly blaming his flaws on the women in his life -- He cannot be faithful to Yadwiga because Masha does not leave him alone. He was not a good husband to Tamara because Tamara was too unwieldy. He cannot remain with Yadwiga because Yadwiga suffocates him. Never does Herman acknowledge his own role in the lives of these women. He spends the entirety of the book running from any concrete decisions, trying to placate everyone.
Herman's philosophical struggles were thought provoking, his attempt to find meaning in a life that felt meaningless; why did he survive, how would he fit into this new world?
Singer is a talented writer, the characters were vivid, the prose beautiful and yet also digestible. I did not like Herman -- I am not sure you are meant to like Herman -- but regardless this was an interesting read and I did enjoy myself. 3 stars.
I do not know how I felt about this book, is it three stars? Five stars? No stars? I am still not sure.
Enemies, A Love Story has a really compelling premise -- Herman is a Jewish WWII refugee living in New York. He spent the war hidden away in the hay barn of his once housemaid Yadwiga. After the war, the two marry and immigrate to America, where he works doing research for a Rabbi. Unsurprisingly, Herman is still very much effected by the war. Everywhere he goes he is planning an escape route, picking out potential weapons, plotting out how he would survive, where he would hide.
But Herman also has Masha, his mistress, who lives with her devout mother in the Bronx. Like Herman, Masha is experiencing post-war PTSD. When the German's invaded Poland, Masha was separated from her mother and sent to live in a Jewish Ghetto. She cannot sleep, she is smoking constantly, she drinks heavily, she talks of death.
But Herman also had a life before the invasion of Poland, one in which he was already married and had two children. Herman had heard that his wife, Tamara, and their two children had been killed, shot by a German bullet, but when Tamara unexpectedly turns up in New York looking for him, things get very complicated.
This is truly a story about Herman trying to find himself after the atrocities of the war. In each woman, we see a different possible version of Herman. Yadwiga represents duty -- she saved Herman's life and kept him alive during the war, and for that he owes her a life debt. Yadwiga converts to Judaism, she focuses on becoming a devout honorable wife to Herman. After the war she turns to religion.
Masha represents assimilation and love (or at least lust -- because despite what the blurb reads I do not believe Herman actually loves any of these women). Masha is a modern woman, she wants to live her life as the American's do, she wants to forget about the war and the horrors that still haunt her. After the war she turns to the future.
Finally Tamara. Throughout the book she is referred to as Herman's 'angel'. She is, perhaps, not a representation of a different version of Herman, but rather a personification of Herman's own guilt, and his voice of reason.
It is clear which path Herman thinks he should take, time and again he swears off his earthly pleasures (including his affair with the captivating Masha) and tries to focus on his work and his wife, but time and again he returns to Masha. Herman clearly has no desire to live a life rooted in the past -- this is made evident by the fact that he never attempted to find Tamara after the war, and perhaps also why he cannot fully commit to Yadwiga- she reminds him too much of those years spent in hiding.
Herman is constantly blaming his flaws on the women in his life -- He cannot be faithful to Yadwiga because Masha does not leave him alone. He was not a good husband to Tamara because Tamara was too unwieldy. He cannot remain with Yadwiga because Yadwiga suffocates him. Never does Herman acknowledge his own role in the lives of these women. He spends the entirety of the book running from any concrete decisions, trying to placate everyone.
Herman's philosophical struggles were thought provoking, his attempt to find meaning in a life that felt meaningless; why did he survive, how would he fit into this new world?
Singer is a talented writer, the characters were vivid, the prose beautiful and yet also digestible. I did not like Herman -- I am not sure you are meant to like Herman -- but regardless this was an interesting read and I did enjoy myself. 3 stars.
October 6, 2014
This is a deeply uncomfortable book. The story is a mix between Holocaust tragedy and 70`s bedroom farce delivered in a unblemished package of beautiful prose. The book goes from a discussion of ones children being shot to how do you make sure your mistress doesnt find out about your first wife coming back into your life while you placate your second wife. Actually I am not entirely sure if it is meant to be a comedy so I am really just going off the blurb on the back on this one. I found the juxtaposition of three deeply traumatized women stumbling around the equally traumatized Broder, whose magnetic attraction for all these women is never really explained, in a love square that alternated between the mundane and the grotesque pretty awful.
Perhaps this was the very point Singer was making that those who survived were not saints and led lives as imperfect and mundane as any human in the aftermath.
Perhaps this was the very point Singer was making that those who survived were not saints and led lives as imperfect and mundane as any human in the aftermath.
December 6, 2019
讴鬲丕亘 丿卮賲賳丕賳 亘丕 賲丨賵乇蹖鬲 夭賳丿诏蹖 賴乇賲丕賳 亘乇賵丿乇貨听蹖讴 賱赖爻鬲丕賳蹖 賮乇丕乇蹖 亘賴 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴貙 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 蹖賴賵丿蹖丕賳 倬賳丕賴賳丿賴 亘賴 噩丕賲毓賴 丌賲乇蹖讴丕 乇丕 卮乇丨 賲蹖 丿賴丿.听
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讴鬲丕亘 丿卮賲賳丕賳 亘丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 丿丕乇丕蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴 乇賵丕賳 賵 丿賱賳卮蹖賳蹖 丕爻鬲貙 賵賱蹖 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賵蹖乇丕蹖卮 賴賲 丿丕乇丿.
丿卮賲賳丕賳貙 丌蹖爻丕讴 亘丕卮賵蹖爻 爻蹖賳诏乇貙 丕丨賲丿 倬賵乇蹖貙 賳卮乇 亘丕睾 賳賵貙 趩丕倬 丕賵賱 1393
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讴鬲丕亘 丿卮賲賳丕賳 亘丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 丿丕乇丕蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴 乇賵丕賳 賵 丿賱賳卮蹖賳蹖 丕爻鬲貙 賵賱蹖 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賵蹖乇丕蹖卮 賴賲 丿丕乇丿.
丿卮賲賳丕賳貙 丌蹖爻丕讴 亘丕卮賵蹖爻 爻蹖賳诏乇貙 丕丨賲丿 倬賵乇蹖貙 賳卮乇 亘丕睾 賳賵貙 趩丕倬 丕賵賱 1393
August 4, 2020
Veoma volim Singera, njegov na膷in pisanja. Blaga ironija, te拧ke teme protkane humorom i optimisti膷nim pogledom na tematiku koja bi, da nije pisana njegovim perom, vjerovatno bacala u depresiju. Ovo njegovo djelo do啪ivjela sam veoma posebno. Iako je roman u pitanju, sve vrijeme imam utisak da 膷itam dramu ili da posmatram pozori拧nu predstavu. Svakako preporu膷ujem ovo knji啪evno djelo sa likovima koji se urezuju u pam膰enje.
February 7, 2009
I read this because a respected columnist in the WSJ said is was one of the books every American interested in the history and development of this country should read.
This was copyrighted in 1972 and at that time it probably was considered to be "cutting edge" writing. Frankly, I was bored and occasionally irritated.
This is the story of a small group of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust trying to adapt and make their way in America -- a country so vastly different from the European countries and cultures they came from that it's no wonder they became delusional, pathetic and just plain weird.
Or, maybe, they were just plain weird to start with.
I did not like (actually I think I came close to hating) the main character -- a man who through all sorts of schemes, but mostly his own stupidity and lack of control came to be married to three women at once.
I did not like the three women either. They were either dumb, dull or manipulative to the point of making me want to scream at them.
The story was actually interesting but the characterizations and constant Yiddish dialogue and manner of speaking kept bringing me out of the story to try to make sense of it all. The constant back-and-forth made for irritating reading.
This is a quick read so if you're interested in American history after World War II, it might be worth your time. The book is long out of print so you'll have to find it through a rare book dealer. The paperback I found cost about $10 so it wasn't a huge investment.
This was copyrighted in 1972 and at that time it probably was considered to be "cutting edge" writing. Frankly, I was bored and occasionally irritated.
This is the story of a small group of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust trying to adapt and make their way in America -- a country so vastly different from the European countries and cultures they came from that it's no wonder they became delusional, pathetic and just plain weird.
Or, maybe, they were just plain weird to start with.
I did not like (actually I think I came close to hating) the main character -- a man who through all sorts of schemes, but mostly his own stupidity and lack of control came to be married to three women at once.
I did not like the three women either. They were either dumb, dull or manipulative to the point of making me want to scream at them.
The story was actually interesting but the characterizations and constant Yiddish dialogue and manner of speaking kept bringing me out of the story to try to make sense of it all. The constant back-and-forth made for irritating reading.
This is a quick read so if you're interested in American history after World War II, it might be worth your time. The book is long out of print so you'll have to find it through a rare book dealer. The paperback I found cost about $10 so it wasn't a huge investment.
April 25, 2019
鈥淎bbandoner貌 tutti!鈥�
E鈥� un 鈥渢opos鈥� frequente, nella narrativa e nelle sceneggiature cinematografiche (Martin Guerre, Sommersby e altri), quello del reduce presunto morto che rientra dalla guerra e scopre una condizione familiare rivoluzionata e poco o nulla propensa a riaccoglierlo. Nel romanzo di Isaac B. Singer la situazione 猫 capovolta: 猫 la moglie, sfuggita all鈥橭locausto, che a Brooklyn ricompare d鈥檌mprovviso allo sciagurato protagonista che, tanto per non farsi mancare nulla, nel frattempo si 猫 rifatto non solo una famiglia, ma addirittura due! Con le conseguenze immaginabili ma anche quelle imprevedibili鈥�
La cifra distintiva di Nemici, una storia d鈥檃more 猫 il contrasto fra la situazione grottesca e paradossale sopra descritta, quasi il canovaccio per una pochade, e la profonda lacerazione interiore da cui tutti i personaggi del romanzo sono afflitti a causa delle ferite, i lutti, le privazioni della guerra, i campi di concentramento, gli anni vissuti da braccati e imboscati.
Herman Broder il protagonista, ma non solo lui, continua a vedere nazisti dappertutto, 猫 ossessionato dal nascondersi, dall鈥檈ssere catturato e riportato in Polonia, dall鈥檌mpossibilit脿 di condurre un鈥檈sistenza che non sia concepita in fuga e 鈥渁lla giornata鈥� e questa 猫 la radice psicologica del suo procedere ondivago fra mogli, lavori, case, strade senza mai trovare soddisfazione n茅 pace, preda degli impulsi momentanei e contraddittori che si accavallano nella sua mente tormentata, fino alla decisione finale, tanto inattesa quanto logica (vedi titolo di questo commento鈥�).
E鈥� un 鈥渢opos鈥� frequente, nella narrativa e nelle sceneggiature cinematografiche (Martin Guerre, Sommersby e altri), quello del reduce presunto morto che rientra dalla guerra e scopre una condizione familiare rivoluzionata e poco o nulla propensa a riaccoglierlo. Nel romanzo di Isaac B. Singer la situazione 猫 capovolta: 猫 la moglie, sfuggita all鈥橭locausto, che a Brooklyn ricompare d鈥檌mprovviso allo sciagurato protagonista che, tanto per non farsi mancare nulla, nel frattempo si 猫 rifatto non solo una famiglia, ma addirittura due! Con le conseguenze immaginabili ma anche quelle imprevedibili鈥�
La cifra distintiva di Nemici, una storia d鈥檃more 猫 il contrasto fra la situazione grottesca e paradossale sopra descritta, quasi il canovaccio per una pochade, e la profonda lacerazione interiore da cui tutti i personaggi del romanzo sono afflitti a causa delle ferite, i lutti, le privazioni della guerra, i campi di concentramento, gli anni vissuti da braccati e imboscati.
Herman Broder il protagonista, ma non solo lui, continua a vedere nazisti dappertutto, 猫 ossessionato dal nascondersi, dall鈥檈ssere catturato e riportato in Polonia, dall鈥檌mpossibilit脿 di condurre un鈥檈sistenza che non sia concepita in fuga e 鈥渁lla giornata鈥� e questa 猫 la radice psicologica del suo procedere ondivago fra mogli, lavori, case, strade senza mai trovare soddisfazione n茅 pace, preda degli impulsi momentanei e contraddittori che si accavallano nella sua mente tormentata, fino alla decisione finale, tanto inattesa quanto logica (vedi titolo di questo commento鈥�).
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April 1, 2024
I thoroughly enjoyed this witty tale of a man caught between two wives and a neurotic mistress; as well of a man paranoid that the Nazis are constantly following him. Bordering on the verge of camp, and a witty and satirical look at marriage and the absurdity of American convention and religious tradition, it's a definite must read for those who enjoy comedy of the human condition. The characters, Herman; his two wives, Tamara and Yadwiga, and the neurotic mistress, Masha are all fully formed, funny, sad and tragic human beings we all could relate to. I especially loved his first wife, Tamara who starts out by all accounts a shrill and vile harridan in the tradition of early Bette Davis roles; but transforms quietly into a pragmatic and strong survivor of wills.
August 27, 2016
賱毓賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 兀賰孬乇 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱賲毓賯丿丞 毓丕胤賮賷丕 丕賱鬲賷 賯乇兀鬲賴丕 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賷 . 賯氐丞 丕賱亘賵賱賳丿賷 丕賱匕賷 賷賴丕噩乇 賵賷鬲乇賰 亘賱丿賴 賴乇亘丕 賲賳 丕賱賳丕夭賷丞 賵賴鬲賱乇 亘毓丿 丕賯鬲賳丕毓丞 亘丕賳 夭賵噩鬲賴 賵丕賵賱丕丿賴 賯丿 賲丕鬲賵丕 賵丕孬賳丕亍 丨賷丕鬲丞 賮賷 兀賲乇賷賰丕 賷噩丿 賳賮爻丞 賮賷 賵囟毓 毓丕胤賮賷 睾丕賷丞 賮賷 丕賱睾乇丕亘丞 : 賮 賴賵 賷毓賷卮 亘氐丨亘丞 丕賲乇兀賴 亘賵賱賳丿賷丞 睾賷乇 賷賴賵丿賷丞 賱丕賳賴丕 丕賳賯匕鬲 丨賷丕鬲賴 賵賷噩丿 賳賮爻丞 賲丿賷賳丕 賱賴丕 亘丕賱亘賯丕亍 賲毓賴丕 賱丕賳賴丕 賱丕鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱毓賷卮 亘賲賮乇丿賴丕 賮賷 兀賲乇賷賰丕 .
賵賷鬲禺匕 賱賳賮爻丞 毓卮賷賯丞 賷賴賵丿賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞 丕賱胤亘丕毓 賵賷賯毓 賮賷 丨亘賴丕 賵賷賯乇乇 丕賱夭賵丕噩 賲賳賴丕 .
賯亘賱 兀賳 鬲賰鬲賲賱 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 亘兀賰鬲卮丕賮丞 亘丕賳 夭賵噩鬲賴 毓賱賷 賯賷丿 丕賱丨賷丕賴 賵丕賳賴丕 賲賵噩賵丿賴 賰匕賱賰 賮賷 丕賲乇賷賰丕 !!
乇賵丕賷丞 賲賲賷夭丞 賵賱丕 兀禺賮賷 廿毓噩丕亘賷 亘丕爻丨賯 爻賳噩乇 丕賱匕賷 賰丕賳鬲 丿賵賲丕 賰賱 乇賵丕賷丕鬲賴 賮賷 丕賱賲爻鬲賵賷 丕賱賲胤賱賵亘
賵賷鬲禺匕 賱賳賮爻丞 毓卮賷賯丞 賷賴賵丿賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞 丕賱胤亘丕毓 賵賷賯毓 賮賷 丨亘賴丕 賵賷賯乇乇 丕賱夭賵丕噩 賲賳賴丕 .
賯亘賱 兀賳 鬲賰鬲賲賱 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 亘兀賰鬲卮丕賮丞 亘丕賳 夭賵噩鬲賴 毓賱賷 賯賷丿 丕賱丨賷丕賴 賵丕賳賴丕 賲賵噩賵丿賴 賰匕賱賰 賮賷 丕賲乇賷賰丕 !!
乇賵丕賷丞 賲賲賷夭丞 賵賱丕 兀禺賮賷 廿毓噩丕亘賷 亘丕爻丨賯 爻賳噩乇 丕賱匕賷 賰丕賳鬲 丿賵賲丕 賰賱 乇賵丕賷丕鬲賴 賮賷 丕賱賲爻鬲賵賷 丕賱賲胤賱賵亘
June 19, 2019
卮丕蹖毓賴 卮丿賴 讴賴 賳賮爻鈥屬囏й� 丌禺乇 丕蹖賳 亘乇賳丕賲賴 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖乇丕賳蹖鈥屬囏ж池� 诏賮鬲賲 丌禺乇蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖 乇丕 讴賴 丕蹖賳 丕賵丕禺乇 禺賵丕賳丿賴鈥屫з� 丕蹖賳噩丕 亘诏匕丕乇賲.
丿卮賲賳丕賳 丿賵賲蹖賳 讴丕乇蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕夭 爻蹖賳诏乇 禺賵丕賳丿賴鈥屫з�. 爻蹖賳诏乇 乇賵丕蹖鬲鈥屭� 賯賻丿賻乇蹖鈥屫池�. 爻丕禺鬲賲丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й屫� 亘乇丕爻丕爻 乇賵丕亘胤 亘蹖賳 丕賳爻丕賳鈥屬囏ж池�. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賿 毓丕卮賯丕賳賴 丕爻鬲. 賲乇丿蹖 蹖賴賵丿蹖 讴賴 夭賳 賵 亘趩賴鈥屬囏й屫� 乇丕 賳丕夭蹖鈥屬囏� 賲蹖鈥屭┴促嗀� 賵 禺賵丿卮 爻賴 爻丕賱 丿乇 丕賳亘丕乇 讴丕賴蹖 倬賳賴丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 夭賳丿賴 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗀� 賴賲乇丕賴 賲賳噩蹖鈥屫ж� 讴賴 夭賲丕賳蹖 禺丿賲鬲讴丕乇卮丕賳 亘賵丿 亘賴 丌賲乇蹖讴丕 爻賮乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀�. 丿乇 倬蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 噩丿蹖丿. 丕賲丕 賴乇 趩賴鈥屬傌臂� 讴賴 丕夭 诏匕卮鬲賴 賮乇丕乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 诏匕卮鬲賴 丕氐賱丕 丕賵 乇丕 乇賴丕 賳賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 鬲丕 丌禺乇卮 丌賳 禺賵賮 賵 鬲乇爻 賲乇诏蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丌賳 丕賳亘丕乇 讴丕賴 丿丕卮鬲 亘丕 丕賵 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗀�.
丿卮賲賳丕賳 丿賵賲蹖賳 讴丕乇蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕夭 爻蹖賳诏乇 禺賵丕賳丿賴鈥屫з�. 爻蹖賳诏乇 乇賵丕蹖鬲鈥屭� 賯賻丿賻乇蹖鈥屫池�. 爻丕禺鬲賲丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й屫� 亘乇丕爻丕爻 乇賵丕亘胤 亘蹖賳 丕賳爻丕賳鈥屬囏ж池�. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賿 毓丕卮賯丕賳賴 丕爻鬲. 賲乇丿蹖 蹖賴賵丿蹖 讴賴 夭賳 賵 亘趩賴鈥屬囏й屫� 乇丕 賳丕夭蹖鈥屬囏� 賲蹖鈥屭┴促嗀� 賵 禺賵丿卮 爻賴 爻丕賱 丿乇 丕賳亘丕乇 讴丕賴蹖 倬賳賴丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 夭賳丿賴 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗀� 賴賲乇丕賴 賲賳噩蹖鈥屫ж� 讴賴 夭賲丕賳蹖 禺丿賲鬲讴丕乇卮丕賳 亘賵丿 亘賴 丌賲乇蹖讴丕 爻賮乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀�. 丿乇 倬蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 噩丿蹖丿. 丕賲丕 賴乇 趩賴鈥屬傌臂� 讴賴 丕夭 诏匕卮鬲賴 賮乇丕乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 诏匕卮鬲賴 丕氐賱丕 丕賵 乇丕 乇賴丕 賳賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 鬲丕 丌禺乇卮 丌賳 禺賵賮 賵 鬲乇爻 賲乇诏蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丌賳 丕賳亘丕乇 讴丕賴 丿丕卮鬲 亘丕 丕賵 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗀�.
July 3, 2008
A fascinating read. The idea that the best and most pious Jews died in the Holocaust and the unscrupulous and dishonest were the natural survivors is fascinating. It seems somewhat blashphemous, but Singer pulls it off by having these broken, half-dead-by their-own-admissions characters wracked with survivors' guilt and trying to make sense of their lives. My only complaint is the over-emoting, purple prose that slips in and makes the narrative overblown at times.
May 13, 2018
丕賱鬲卮賵賴 丕賱匕賷 賷賯毓 亘爻亘亘 丕賱丨乇賵亘 賰賷賮 賷睾賷乇 賮賷 丕賱賳賮爻 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞
丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 鬲鬲賰賱賲 毓賱賷 丕賱賷賴賵丿 丕賱卮乇賯賷賷賳 賵賱賰賳賴丕 賮賷 乇兀賷 丕賱禺丕氐 鬲鬲賰賱賲 毓賳丕 毓賳 賰賱 賲賳 卮賵賴鬲賴賲 馗乇賵賮賴賲 丕賱氐毓亘賴 賵噩毓賱鬲賴賲 賵丨賵卮丕 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓賵賳 丕賳 賷毓乇賮賵 胤乇賷賯 丕賱氐賵丕亘
丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 卮丿賷丿丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕賵賷賴 賵丕賱乇賵毓賴 賲毓丕
丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 鬲鬲賰賱賲 毓賱賷 丕賱賷賴賵丿 丕賱卮乇賯賷賷賳 賵賱賰賳賴丕 賮賷 乇兀賷 丕賱禺丕氐 鬲鬲賰賱賲 毓賳丕 毓賳 賰賱 賲賳 卮賵賴鬲賴賲 馗乇賵賮賴賲 丕賱氐毓亘賴 賵噩毓賱鬲賴賲 賵丨賵卮丕 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓賵賳 丕賳 賷毓乇賮賵 胤乇賷賯 丕賱氐賵丕亘
丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 卮丿賷丿丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕賵賷賴 賵丕賱乇賵毓賴 賲毓丕
January 10, 2019
芦 Nemici 禄, ultima pubblicazione di casa Adelphi relativa alla riscoperta dell鈥檕pera di Isaac Bashevis Singer, 猫 stata una lettura che mi ha davvero sorpresa.
Il sottotitolo vuole dare una precisa indicazione al lettore: 芦Una storia d鈥檃more禄. Eppure quella che mi sono trovata davanti 猫 una storia che declina l鈥檃more in maniera del tutto particolare, nella maniera pi霉 bella, forse.
L鈥檃more per la libert脿, o meglio, la libert脿 attraverso l鈥檃more.
Ma andiamo con ordine.
Herman, il protagonista, si 猫 salvato dallo sterminio nazista grazie a Jadwiga, la cameriera della sua famiglia, che per tre anni lo ha nascosto nel fienile di casa sua nutrendolo, lavandolo e curandolo.
Dopo la guerra,sposatala quasi per gratitudine, si 猫 trasferito a New York insieme a lei.
Eppure Herman non 猫 mai davvero uscito da quel fienile, da allora non 猫 mai pi霉 stato libero.
La cattivit脿 e la paura sono diventati parti integranti del suo essere e l鈥檜nica cura possibile sembra quella di evadere attraverso le bugie.
Tutte le relazioni di Herman, sia amorose che lavorative, sono basate sulla menzogna.
Solo nel fuggire da una situazione spiacevole, ricorrendo all鈥檈nnesima bugia, sembra provare una momentanea sensazione di libert脿 e vittoria, l鈥檜nica possibile.
E mentre la storia procede verso la resa dei conti finale, il ritmo della narrazione diventa sempre pi霉 incalzante, trascinando il lettore in un vortice dal quale non vorrebbe mai liberarsi.
Altro elemento interessante 猫, poi, il fatto che in questo romanzo si apre una finestra sulla quotidianit脿 della vita degli ebrei sopravvissuti.
Le difficolt脿 di convivere con un trauma indelebile, infatti, sono solitamente poco indagate dalla letteratura.
Unico -bellissimo- esempio riscontrato fin鈥檕ra 猫 Maus di Art Spiegelman.
Il sottotitolo vuole dare una precisa indicazione al lettore: 芦Una storia d鈥檃more禄. Eppure quella che mi sono trovata davanti 猫 una storia che declina l鈥檃more in maniera del tutto particolare, nella maniera pi霉 bella, forse.
L鈥檃more per la libert脿, o meglio, la libert脿 attraverso l鈥檃more.
Ma andiamo con ordine.
Herman, il protagonista, si 猫 salvato dallo sterminio nazista grazie a Jadwiga, la cameriera della sua famiglia, che per tre anni lo ha nascosto nel fienile di casa sua nutrendolo, lavandolo e curandolo.
Dopo la guerra,sposatala quasi per gratitudine, si 猫 trasferito a New York insieme a lei.
Eppure Herman non 猫 mai davvero uscito da quel fienile, da allora non 猫 mai pi霉 stato libero.
La cattivit脿 e la paura sono diventati parti integranti del suo essere e l鈥檜nica cura possibile sembra quella di evadere attraverso le bugie.
Tutte le relazioni di Herman, sia amorose che lavorative, sono basate sulla menzogna.
Solo nel fuggire da una situazione spiacevole, ricorrendo all鈥檈nnesima bugia, sembra provare una momentanea sensazione di libert脿 e vittoria, l鈥檜nica possibile.
E mentre la storia procede verso la resa dei conti finale, il ritmo della narrazione diventa sempre pi霉 incalzante, trascinando il lettore in un vortice dal quale non vorrebbe mai liberarsi.
Altro elemento interessante 猫, poi, il fatto che in questo romanzo si apre una finestra sulla quotidianit脿 della vita degli ebrei sopravvissuti.
Le difficolt脿 di convivere con un trauma indelebile, infatti, sono solitamente poco indagate dalla letteratura.
Unico -bellissimo- esempio riscontrato fin鈥檕ra 猫 Maus di Art Spiegelman.
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