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Brazilian novelist Moacyr Scliar's Max and the Cats is an elegant parable of the fallout of fascism, told in a mode that recalls Kafka, Grass, Marquez, and Bruno Shulz. It is the story of a young German, Max Schmidt, and his psychological battles with three felines: a stuffed tiger in his father's Berlin fur shop, a jaguar aboard a life raft in the west Atlantic, and a phantasmal onca in northern Brazil. The plot is quite simple: Max, through his youthful innocence, becomes embroiled in an ill-judged love affair that causes him to run afoul of the emerging Nazi party. He flees Germany, only to become stranded mid-ocean after the freighter on which he has found passage is scuttled in an act of insurance fraud. Eventually, he drifts to Brazil, where he is faced once again with the spectre of fascism--which he flees but is eventually driven to exorcise through an act of bloody violence. Scliar's narrative is understated and sometimes quite comical, but his purpose is wholly serious, and Max and the Cats offers a perspective on fascism that is intriguing--and rather unfamiliar to North American readers.
Max and the Cats briefly gained some fame in Canada when a handful of sensationalist journalists "revealed" that Yann Martel had derived part of the premise for Life of Pi from a review of Scliar's novella. This so-called scandal was unfair to both books, which really have very little in common aside from the fact that both involve a young man adrift on a lifeboat with a big cat. Skeptics who want to assess the extent of Martel's borrowings should read Max and the Cats before judging Martel, but this is a book that deserves to be read for its own considerable merits and not forever bound to its purported double. --Jack Illingworth
142 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1981
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Moacyr Scliar
192?books127?followersMoacyr Jaime Scliar (born March 23, 1937) is a Brazilian writer and physician.
Scliar is best known outside Brazil for his 1981 novel Max and the Cats (Max e os Felinos), the story of a young man who flees Berlin after he comes to the attention of the Nazis for having had an affair with a married woman. Making his way to Brazil, his ship sinks, and he finds himself alone in a dinghy with a jaguar who had been travelling in the hold.[1] The story of the jaguar and the boy was picked up by Yann Martel for his own book Life of Pi, winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize, in which Pi is trapped in a lifeboat with a tiger
Scliar is best known outside Brazil for his 1981 novel Max and the Cats (Max e os Felinos), the story of a young man who flees Berlin after he comes to the attention of the Nazis for having had an affair with a married woman. Making his way to Brazil, his ship sinks, and he finds himself alone in a dinghy with a jaguar who had been travelling in the hold.[1] The story of the jaguar and the boy was picked up by Yann Martel for his own book Life of Pi, winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize, in which Pi is trapped in a lifeboat with a tiger
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April 21, 2021
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December 1, 2019
I discovered Moacyr Scliar when I first read The Centaur In The Garden many years ago. I re-read that book not too long ago and my older self understood it much better the second time around.
I wanted to see more by this author so I ordered this one and at least one other. (I've lost track of my new arrivals a bit lately.)
Max And The Cats, originally copyrighted in 1981 and with a translation copyright of 1990, was the book which 'inspired' Yann Matel to write his 2001 book Life Of Pi. According to what I read, Martel had seen a review of Scliar's book but supposedly never read the book itself. I've read the Martel book, just have not reviewed it for GR as yet. I enjoyed that read, but I found Scliar's book had more depth, and the main character was easier to identify with.
Plus, there were no surprise twists at the end to explain everything. The alert reader understands from the beginning what Max's cats represent: a universal evil much more terrifying than any one man could ever be. That evil existed during Max's lifetime; unfortunately it is just as real these days.
Hatred. Prejudice. Totalitarian thinking. Following the herd or keeping quiet because you are afraid to stand up for what is right, afraid to perhaps die in defense of humanity. Max was a young adult in Germany during WWII. He was born in 1912 and even in his childhood the cats prowled the streets, lived in his house. As he got older they hunted him. So he ran.
But eventually he has to face them. We all have to face them. Or else we will be eaten alive.
I wanted to see more by this author so I ordered this one and at least one other. (I've lost track of my new arrivals a bit lately.)
Max And The Cats, originally copyrighted in 1981 and with a translation copyright of 1990, was the book which 'inspired' Yann Matel to write his 2001 book Life Of Pi. According to what I read, Martel had seen a review of Scliar's book but supposedly never read the book itself. I've read the Martel book, just have not reviewed it for GR as yet. I enjoyed that read, but I found Scliar's book had more depth, and the main character was easier to identify with.
Plus, there were no surprise twists at the end to explain everything. The alert reader understands from the beginning what Max's cats represent: a universal evil much more terrifying than any one man could ever be. That evil existed during Max's lifetime; unfortunately it is just as real these days.
Hatred. Prejudice. Totalitarian thinking. Following the herd or keeping quiet because you are afraid to stand up for what is right, afraid to perhaps die in defense of humanity. Max was a young adult in Germany during WWII. He was born in 1912 and even in his childhood the cats prowled the streets, lived in his house. As he got older they hunted him. So he ran.
But eventually he has to face them. We all have to face them. Or else we will be eaten alive.
August 30, 2018
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December 29, 2012
I'm giving this book extra credit for having the exact opposite qualities of Life of Pi, which I hated. Where Life of Pi felt precious, pretentious, contrived, belabored, forced, overly long, badly written, uninteresting, unoriginal, and pointless, Max and the Cats was a quick, fresh little story that kept me engaged and consistently surprised me all the way through.
I never would've picked up this very slim, out-of-print book if I hadn't been assigned it for class, and nothing in a description of it would've sounded especially appealing to me: it's about the son of a Berlin furrier who sails to Brazil in the thirties, who en route gets stuck in a lifeboat with a jaguar. And obviously yeah I've read books about people fleeing Nazi Germany before, but this story wasn't like anything else I've read. It all felt so necessary and new, which is what I want from fiction.
I never would've picked up this very slim, out-of-print book if I hadn't been assigned it for class, and nothing in a description of it would've sounded especially appealing to me: it's about the son of a Berlin furrier who sails to Brazil in the thirties, who en route gets stuck in a lifeboat with a jaguar. And obviously yeah I've read books about people fleeing Nazi Germany before, but this story wasn't like anything else I've read. It all felt so necessary and new, which is what I want from fiction.
May 9, 2014
As early as the part where Max is floating in the middle of the ocean in a dinghy with a live jaguar I was sweating buckets already. My client was already an hour late and I wasn't able to find a seat in the airconditioned area of the Starbucks so I was outside, where the smokers were, during that one hot summer afternoon. My client took one more hour to arrive, blaming the heavy traffic, and I had then long finished reading this novella and finished my brewed coffee (sipping the last, cold drops of it as the client joined my at the table, feigning not too long an arrival on my part to make her feel at ease and less guilty for her tardiness).
I don't know if there are meaningful symbolisms here and if they are more pronounced in the original Portuguese but with or without them all I can say is that this was probably my worst read-while-waiting novel where the only excitement I felt was the thought that I somehow had "discovered" where Yann Martel of the "Life of Pi" fame got his idea of trapping a man in a small boat in the middle of the sea with wild animal/s but only for this brief excitement to be doused with cold water when I saw the blurb at the back cover with Yann Martel saying: "I am indebted to Mr. Moacyr Scliar, for the spark of life."
My, what a wicked, clever move! He most likely STOLE the idea but the theft he managed to turn into a loan by benignly labeling it not as a loot but a mere "spark of life."
I don't know if there are meaningful symbolisms here and if they are more pronounced in the original Portuguese but with or without them all I can say is that this was probably my worst read-while-waiting novel where the only excitement I felt was the thought that I somehow had "discovered" where Yann Martel of the "Life of Pi" fame got his idea of trapping a man in a small boat in the middle of the sea with wild animal/s but only for this brief excitement to be doused with cold water when I saw the blurb at the back cover with Yann Martel saying: "I am indebted to Mr. Moacyr Scliar, for the spark of life."
My, what a wicked, clever move! He most likely STOLE the idea but the theft he managed to turn into a loan by benignly labeling it not as a loot but a mere "spark of life."
October 4, 2020
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June 18, 2021
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June 29, 2010
So after all the controversy about Beatrice and Virgil and Life of Pi by Yann Martel and did he or did he not plagiarize Mr. Moacyr Scliar I decided to read Max and the Cats.
It is very short, but covers most of one man's lifetime. It's really a novella. And a very sweet one at that.
Yes, images, ideas and even words were taken from Max and the Cats to create both of Yann Martel's popular books, but I don't know anything about plagiarism laws.
What I do know is that Max and The Cats is a well written, concise little story of a man who flees Germany to avoid having to live under Nazi rule. It can easily be read in an afternoon. I liked it a lot and found Max to be a very sympathetic protagonist. I recommend it. 4/5 stars.
It is very short, but covers most of one man's lifetime. It's really a novella. And a very sweet one at that.
Yes, images, ideas and even words were taken from Max and the Cats to create both of Yann Martel's popular books, but I don't know anything about plagiarism laws.
What I do know is that Max and The Cats is a well written, concise little story of a man who flees Germany to avoid having to live under Nazi rule. It can easily be read in an afternoon. I liked it a lot and found Max to be a very sympathetic protagonist. I recommend it. 4/5 stars.
June 18, 2021
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January 12, 2019
Moacyr Scliar
Max and the Cats
Gramedia Pustaka Utama
140 pages
6.5
I was under the impression that Max and the Cats is a children book when I read it and this created the most WTF moment in 2019 so far, especially at the sex scene that occurred after a few pages in.
Max and the Cats
Gramedia Pustaka Utama
140 pages
6.5
I was under the impression that Max and the Cats is a children book when I read it and this created the most WTF moment in 2019 so far, especially at the sex scene that occurred after a few pages in.
December 18, 2019
Reviewed in Canada on January 19, 2013
Format: Paperback
Moacyr Scliar has managed to pack so much grandeur into this 99 page novella it is hard to grasp all at once.
Essentially it speaks to the psychology of a person facing their innermost fears & dealing with them on two levels; the real & the imagined.
A completely cohesive story about a young man, Max, born in Berlin in 1912, afflicted with a terror of cats, conceivably due to the fact that his father is an unsavory furrier. From an early age Max is subjected to the objects of his father's business: "foxes of dubious pedigree, dead minks chanced upon in the snow, martens rejected by other furriers. And even rabbits......"
This is part fantasy & part reality dealing effectively with a number of social issues in concise passages that draw the reader into Max's mind.
A very satisfying read. Not to be confused with the utter & unadulterated rubbish by Martel.
Format: Paperback
Moacyr Scliar has managed to pack so much grandeur into this 99 page novella it is hard to grasp all at once.
Essentially it speaks to the psychology of a person facing their innermost fears & dealing with them on two levels; the real & the imagined.
A completely cohesive story about a young man, Max, born in Berlin in 1912, afflicted with a terror of cats, conceivably due to the fact that his father is an unsavory furrier. From an early age Max is subjected to the objects of his father's business: "foxes of dubious pedigree, dead minks chanced upon in the snow, martens rejected by other furriers. And even rabbits......"
This is part fantasy & part reality dealing effectively with a number of social issues in concise passages that draw the reader into Max's mind.
A very satisfying read. Not to be confused with the utter & unadulterated rubbish by Martel.
April 6, 2008
In the dedication of Yann Martel's Life of Pi, he credits Moacyr Scliar as inspiration for that book. In an interview, Mr. Martel insists that he never read this book, but had read a synopsis which inspired his own novel. However, the similarities are more than striking and readers who enjoyed Life of Pi should also read this book to decide for themselves. If anything it is interesting to read 2 books with similarly odd setups (a boy trapped on a boat with a wild tiger) and see the different directions the books take and the cultural influences each book conveys.
April 26, 2018
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June 20, 2021
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July 9, 2015
Li este livro numa tarde e posso dizer que gostei da história, mas a escrita n?o me impressionou. Para além disso, pareceu-me que havia margem para ter desenvolvido muito mais o enredo. ? medida que ia lendo, parecia-me que a história se desenvolvia a correr e quando cheguei ao fim, fiquei com a impress?o de ter lido um esbo?o, ou uma daquelas vers?es simplificadas para estudantes, em que um livro de 300 páginas é condensado em metade, retendo-se apenas os momentos principais da ac??o.
September 1, 2021
Sepintas awal ceritanya mirip banget dgn "Life of Pi" nya Yann Martel. Max juga kepepet dan meninggalkan tanah kelahirannya dari Jerman menuju Brazil dgn kapal laut. Tapi di lautan dia ditipu, dikorbankan utk mati tenggelam bersama kargo dan seekor jaguar.
Demi kelangsungan hidupnya, Max memberi kucing besar itu ikan scr kontinyu. Hingga puncaknya tak ada lagi makanan, Max terdampar di pesisir Brazil. Dari sana Max memulai kehidupan barunya yg berkembang dgn pesat mjd orang yg lumayan berkecukupan.
Krn settingnya di awal abad 20 hingga Perang Dunia II, saat seluruh dunia berkecamuk perang, Max relatif aman di Brazil walau pernikahannya dgn keturunan Indian membuatnya dikucilkan. Semakin tua, Max semakin aneh dan temperamental, tapi dia memperoleh kehidupan lumayan enak dan damai.
Cerita jatuh bangunnya seorang anak muda, dari miskin hingga mjd kaya, dari muda hingga tua menggambarkan pergolakan hidupnya. Sayangnya ceritanya singkat saja dan didominasi oleh narasi?. Lumayan saja deh.
Demi kelangsungan hidupnya, Max memberi kucing besar itu ikan scr kontinyu. Hingga puncaknya tak ada lagi makanan, Max terdampar di pesisir Brazil. Dari sana Max memulai kehidupan barunya yg berkembang dgn pesat mjd orang yg lumayan berkecukupan.
Krn settingnya di awal abad 20 hingga Perang Dunia II, saat seluruh dunia berkecamuk perang, Max relatif aman di Brazil walau pernikahannya dgn keturunan Indian membuatnya dikucilkan. Semakin tua, Max semakin aneh dan temperamental, tapi dia memperoleh kehidupan lumayan enak dan damai.
Cerita jatuh bangunnya seorang anak muda, dari miskin hingga mjd kaya, dari muda hingga tua menggambarkan pergolakan hidupnya. Sayangnya ceritanya singkat saja dan didominasi oleh narasi?. Lumayan saja deh.
June 20, 2021
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December 12, 2018
Mungkin kalau hidup kita seperti Max, juga akan sedikit stres. Bagaimana tidak sepertinya semua episode dalam hidupnya selalu berkaitan dengan hewan dari ras kucing. Harimau, Jaguar, dan Onca (jaguar khas Brasilia). Selain Max dibesarkan oleh keluarga yang memiliki toko penjual mantel bulu, kualitas rendah.
Namun, episode penting hidupnya memang selalu dimulai dengan hewan kucing. Max jatuh cinta pada Frida, gadis penjaga toko milik ayahnya. Proses jatuh cinta dan persetubuhan mereka tidak akan terjadi kalau Max tidak takut dengan harimau awetan yang ada di atas lemari milik ayahnya. Kemudian diketahui oleh suaminya yang anggota NAZI, dan dia melarikan diri agar tidak diburu oleh kelompok NAZI. Dalam perjalanan melarikan diri, Max menumpang kapal di mana ada banyak hewan sirkus. Di tengah perjalanan naik kapal itu, terjadi bencana (atau yang diasumsikan Max bahwa kapten dan pemilik hewan sedang sudah merencanakannya agar dapat asuransi dari kapal dan hewan sirkus). Dan di tengah sekoci itu, Max bertemu dengan jaguar yang tersembunyi. Hingga tak sadarkan diri dan terdampar di Brasilia. Tanah yang semenjak kecil Max bayangkan sebagai tanah surga, karena keindahan dan bentangan alam.
Hidup di Brasilia, MAx nyatanya masih dihantui oleh NAZI dan gesekan politik di sana. Dan lagi-lagi sosok hewan yang menganggu keluarganya, termasuk melukai Hilde anak perempuannya. Hewan onca.
Namun, boleh dibilang novel tipis ini sedang menguliti "keji"-nya NAZI dan sosok korban dari rakyat jelata. Harimau, jaguar, onca, dan perkucingan adalah alegori untuk sistem yang dikritik oleh penulis.
Uniknya dari buku ini adalah kisah MAX di kapal dengan seekor Jaguar ini konon ditiru oleh Yann MArtel dalam Life of Pi(Sila dicari beritanya di online). Karena kasus itu pula, buku ini kemarin saya culik dan baca sepanjang kereta. Kisahnya sederhana dan menukil episode keji manusia.
(Kenapa ya, sekarang banyak novel-novel tipis punya taji cukup?)
Namun, episode penting hidupnya memang selalu dimulai dengan hewan kucing. Max jatuh cinta pada Frida, gadis penjaga toko milik ayahnya. Proses jatuh cinta dan persetubuhan mereka tidak akan terjadi kalau Max tidak takut dengan harimau awetan yang ada di atas lemari milik ayahnya. Kemudian diketahui oleh suaminya yang anggota NAZI, dan dia melarikan diri agar tidak diburu oleh kelompok NAZI. Dalam perjalanan melarikan diri, Max menumpang kapal di mana ada banyak hewan sirkus. Di tengah perjalanan naik kapal itu, terjadi bencana (atau yang diasumsikan Max bahwa kapten dan pemilik hewan sedang sudah merencanakannya agar dapat asuransi dari kapal dan hewan sirkus). Dan di tengah sekoci itu, Max bertemu dengan jaguar yang tersembunyi. Hingga tak sadarkan diri dan terdampar di Brasilia. Tanah yang semenjak kecil Max bayangkan sebagai tanah surga, karena keindahan dan bentangan alam.
Hidup di Brasilia, MAx nyatanya masih dihantui oleh NAZI dan gesekan politik di sana. Dan lagi-lagi sosok hewan yang menganggu keluarganya, termasuk melukai Hilde anak perempuannya. Hewan onca.
Namun, boleh dibilang novel tipis ini sedang menguliti "keji"-nya NAZI dan sosok korban dari rakyat jelata. Harimau, jaguar, onca, dan perkucingan adalah alegori untuk sistem yang dikritik oleh penulis.
Uniknya dari buku ini adalah kisah MAX di kapal dengan seekor Jaguar ini konon ditiru oleh Yann MArtel dalam Life of Pi(Sila dicari beritanya di online). Karena kasus itu pula, buku ini kemarin saya culik dan baca sepanjang kereta. Kisahnya sederhana dan menukil episode keji manusia.
(Kenapa ya, sekarang banyak novel-novel tipis punya taji cukup?)
June 9, 2019
** Books 60 - 2019 **
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3,4 dari 5 bintang!
Kalau yang suka Yann Martel dan kucing pasti akan menyukai buku ini. Buku petualangan, ada unsur fantasinya, sedikit World War II yang menyegarkan cerita untukku. Jujur lebih suka buku ini ketimbang Life of Pi XD
Sekali-kali boleh dong yah daku membaca buku non-timbunan hahaha.. hayati lelah tapi masih menumpuk 329 buku timbunan :3
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