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I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust

de Mathias B. Freese

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"Freese says that 'memory must metabolize the Holocaust] endlessly, ' and his book certainly turns hell into harsh nourishment: keeps us alert, sharpens our nerves and outrage, forbids complacent sleep so the historical horror can't be glossed over as mere nightmare. The Holocaust wasn't a dream or even a madness. It was a lucid, non-anomalous act that is ever-present in rational Man. In the face of this fact Freese never pulls punches. Rather, his deft, brutal, and insightful words punch and punch until dreams' respite are no longer an option and insanity isn't an excuse." --David Herrle, Author of Sharon Tate and the Daughters of Joy "... Freese's haunting lament might best be explained (at least to me) by something Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about Herman Melville's endless search for answers to questions that perplexed him all his adult life. Melville was incessantly obsessed with what one might call the why of it all-life, death, metaphysical mysteries. Similar to Freese, Melville was repeatedly afflicted with a dark and depressive state of mind." --Duff Brenna, Professor Emeritus CSU San Marcos Mathias B. Freese is a writer, teacher, and psychotherapist. His recent collection of essays, This M bius Strip of Ifs, was the winner of the National Indie Excellence Book Award of 2012 in general nonfiction and a 2012 Global Ebook Award finalist. His I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust was one of three finalists chosen in the 2012 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest out of 424 submissions.… (més)
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I’ve read many stories about WWII, the Nazis, and the Holocaust. I’ve read a lot of horror and crime novels. I enjoy disturbing stories. That said, I Truly Lament is one of the most disturbing collections of stories I’ve ever read. We should be disturbed by the Holocaust , but some of these stories take that to a whole new level. I’m not an overly religious person either, but even found some of the religious references quite extreme for me… I understand these feelings given the circumstances however.
Taking the above into account, I must say these stories are well written. They will make you think. They will make you understand just how horrible we humans can treat one another. They will make you wish this was all fiction, with no basis in history! This book does everything a good collection of stories should, it takes you to another place and time… and that need not always be pleasant.
By all means, get a copy and read these stories. But, I’m sure somewhere within the pages you will find yourself offended in some way. ( )
  bearlyr | Jun 27, 2015 |
"What an eternal moment this is, last memories, the only I cannot have taken from me." I Truly Lament—Working Through the Holocaust is a fictional collection of memories. Observers being observed, killers being killed, private parts exposed. The Holocaust revised, sometimes rewritten, redone, undone, denied, intensified, remembered and played with. Golems asked for help, collectors of Hitler curiosa, Adolf Hitler making rare love with Eva Braun, rabbinical advice to use the mind as compass, or Leviathan explaining the evil empire. The book contains both precarious, hilarious, satirical, raw and painful short stories. "in the spaces between the guards and the guarded is everything one needs to know."
Being the hunter or the hunted. "We admittedly lose a good deal of our humanity as we perform our duties. It's a troubling cost that drives us to be so bitterly cruel, to exact personal measures of spite to ease our own raw deals as guards."
The bundle's got an imagined interview with Eva Braun during her last days in the Berlin bunker a week before committing suicide, the love story of a Hungarian cantor, searches for meaning and rest in meaninglessness. Certainly not everyone's #1 topic to make such intelligent jokes about. Despite the sensitivities, the exaggeration also helps overcoming the past and chosing to live on here and now. ( )
  hjvanderklis | Jun 23, 2015 |
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"Freese says that 'memory must metabolize the Holocaust] endlessly, ' and his book certainly turns hell into harsh nourishment: keeps us alert, sharpens our nerves and outrage, forbids complacent sleep so the historical horror can't be glossed over as mere nightmare. The Holocaust wasn't a dream or even a madness. It was a lucid, non-anomalous act that is ever-present in rational Man. In the face of this fact Freese never pulls punches. Rather, his deft, brutal, and insightful words punch and punch until dreams' respite are no longer an option and insanity isn't an excuse." --David Herrle, Author of Sharon Tate and the Daughters of Joy "... Freese's haunting lament might best be explained (at least to me) by something Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about Herman Melville's endless search for answers to questions that perplexed him all his adult life. Melville was incessantly obsessed with what one might call the why of it all-life, death, metaphysical mysteries. Similar to Freese, Melville was repeatedly afflicted with a dark and depressive state of mind." --Duff Brenna, Professor Emeritus CSU San Marcos Mathias B. Freese is a writer, teacher, and psychotherapist. His recent collection of essays, This M bius Strip of Ifs, was the winner of the National Indie Excellence Book Award of 2012 in general nonfiction and a 2012 Global Ebook Award finalist. His I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust was one of three finalists chosen in the 2012 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest out of 424 submissions.

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