Name: Kapo
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Author: David Rieff
ISBN: 9781681374390

Type

Physical Book

Author

Aleksander Tisma

Epilogue by

David Rieff

Translated by

Richard Williams

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

312

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781681374390

Synopsis "Kapo"

A devastating novel about the attrocities of WWII, and the unspeakable things people did to survive, by one of Yugoslavia's great literary voices. The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo In these three unsparing novels the Yugoslav author Aleksandar Tisma anatomized the plight of those who survived the Second World War and the death camps, only to live on in a death-haunted world. Blam simply lucked out--and can hardly face himself in the mirror. By contrast, the teenage friends in The Use of Man are condemned to live on and on while enduring every affliction. Kapo is about Lamian, who made it through Auschwitz by serving his German masters, knowing that at any moment and for any reason his "special status" might be revoked. But the war is over now. Auschwitz is in the past. Lamian has settled down in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, where he has a respectable job as a superintendent in the railyard. Everything is normal enough. Then one day in the paper he comes on the name of Helena Lifka, a woman--like him a Yugoslav and a Jew--he raped in the camp. Not long after he sees her, aged and ungainly, Lamian is flooded with guilt and terror. Kapo, like Tisma's other great novels, is not simply a document or an act of witness. Tisma's terrible gift is to see with an artist's dispassionate clarity how fear, violence, guilt, and desire--whether for life, love, or simple understanding--are inextricably knotted together in the human breast.

David Rieff

(Epilogue by)

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David Rieff (Boston, 1952), licenciado en Historia por la Universidad de Princeton, es analista político, periodista y crítico cultural. Sus artículos se han publicado en importantes medios como The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, El País o Letras Libres. Es autor de los ensayos Una cama para una noche (2003); Crímenes de guerra (en colaboración con Roy Gutman 2003); A punta de pistola (2007); Un mar de muerte (2008), sobre la muerte de su madre, Susan Sontag; El oprobio del hambre (2016); Elogio del olvido (2017), y, recientemente, Deseo y Destino. Lo woke, el ocaso de la cultura y la victoria de lo kitsch (2025).

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