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S'està carregant… Landscape in Concrete (1963)de Jakov Lind
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. The bigger the war, the greater the number of books about it. No matter how you define big – lives lost, cost, population displacement, devastation to infrastructure – World War II tops the list. Nonfiction tomes aside, over the last sixty years World War II has inspired a plenitude of fiction. From Gunter Grass’ The Tin Drum to the works of Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll , from the relatively recent discovery and publication of the works of Irène Némirovsky to a post-War generation of works such as Ursula Hegi’s Stones from the River and William T. Vollman’s National Book Award winner Europe Central, the stories keep coming. And now, there’s another class of World War II fiction – novels that were published, praised, and forgotten primarily because they happened to be works in translation and failed to receive much attention on this side of the Atlantic. Thanks to the University of Rochester’s (euphoniously named) press Open Letter, Landscape in Concrete by Jakov Lind has returned to the dim light of center stage. For the remainder of this review, see the May 2009 edition of Open Letters Monthly: http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/book-review-landscape-concrete-jakov-lind/ Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"It is this book that confirms Lind's status as an author of international importance."--New York Times Sergeant Gauthier Bachmann is the perfect Nazi soldier. But after a horrifying defeat at Voroshenko, where most of his Eighth Hessian Infantry Regiment was slaughtered in a single instant, Bachmann was declared mentally unfit to serve. Incapable of accepting this judgment, and of returning to his girlfriend and a quiet life as a gold- and silversmith, Bachmann wanders the war-ravaged countryside, trying to find a way to rejoin his regiment, or any regiment, and return to the front. While trying to find his regiment and come to terms with the horrors he has seen and committed, the increasingly unstable Bachmann is manipulated by a series of figures from the war's underbelly--deserters and collaborators, corrupt officers and sexual predators--who induce him to carry out their venal missions, which they've justified against the background of institutionalized murder going on all around them. Containing dark echoes of Jaroslav Hasek'sThe Good Soldier Svejk, Jakov Lind'sLandscape in Concrete is an "astonishing and highly original imagining of (the) dimensions of evil including sadistic cruelty, of the condition of being a victim and the madness abroad which constitutes the virtual victory of Hitler if we fail to translate survival into freedom" (Anthony Rudolf). Jakov Lind was born in Vienna and survived the Second World War by fleeing into Germany, where he disguised himself as a Dutch deckhand. Regarded in his lifetime as a successor to Beckett and Kafka, Lind was posthumously awarded the Theodor Kramer Prize in 2007. Ralph Manheim was one of the great translators of the twentieth century. He translated Günter Grass, Bertolt Brecht, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hermann Hesse, Peter Handke, and more. In 1982, PEN American Center created an award for translation in his name. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The introduction by Joshua Cohen is also a good read. Jakov lind's life is almost stranger than his fiction. ( )