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The Memory Monster
Yishai Sarid
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Beschreibung
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022
A HISTORY TODAY BEST HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
'A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present' The New York Times
'Excels in its readiness to court controversy without surrendering nuance, and in place of moralising it offers questioning that's as necessary as it is unsettling.' Observer
Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination, guiding tours through the death camps. The job becomes a mission, and then a dangerous obsession.
With great perspicuity and the bitterest black humour, The Memory Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honour the suffering of our forebears without becoming consumed by it?
Rezensionen
Sarid'
<b>Taboo-breaking, anguished </b>... Sarid'
A <b>bracing corrective to the recent literary fashion for Holocaust kitsch</b>. It takes a <b>fearless </b>and astringent look at the use and abuse of Holocaust memory and emerges with answers every bit as challenging and uncomfortable as this topic demands
<b>Intelligent and powerful... anything but complacent</b>
<b>A brilliant, challenging, and uncompromising novel</b>
<b>Sarid boldly highlights the risks of "harnessing [ourselves] to the memory chariot"
<b>Unflinching </b>... a <b>provocative </b>exploration of Holocaust memory in a moment of generational shift
A <b> brave and brilliant</b> short novel <b>translated to great deadpan effect</b> ... Sarid is <b>an exciting writer</b> ... <i>The Memory Monster</i> is <b>clever, funny, disturbing and tragic</b>
A <b>brilliant </b>short novel that serves as <b> a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present</b>
The <b> short but powerful</b> novel raises the question of how far we let the horrors of the past infiltrate our present-day lives.... <i>The Memory Monster</i> is <b>not an easy book to read but its message is important to hear</b>
While countless writers have asked the question of where, or if, humanity can be found within the profoundly inhumane, Sarid <b> incisively shows how preoccupation and obsession with the inhumane can take a toll on one'
Kundenbewertungen
Primo Levi, holocaust trauma, culture of memory, Holocaust commemoration culture, Shalom Auslander, Poland war guilt, Son of Saul, Holocaust novel, Yad Vashem, Israeli politics fiction, David Grossman, controversial Jewish fiction