"All those who admire Aharon Appelfeld's work will find Gila Ramras-Rauch's analysis both exciting and rewarding." - Elie Wiesel. The contemporary Hebrew novelist Aharon Appelfeld is one of the foremost chroniclers of the impact of the Holocaust on the human psyche. His fiction weaves sensitive and disturbing tales about individuals in the pre- and post-Holocaust worlds. In the first book devoted entirely to Appelfeld's work, Gila Ramras-Rauch explores his life, his shattered universe, and the development of his unique esthetic. A book-by-book analysis of his entire body of fiction - short stories, novellas, and novels from the early 1960s to the early 1990s, including such works as "Smoke"; "Tzili, the Story of a Life"; "Badenheim, 1939"; and "Katerina" - provides a perceptive guide to Appelfeld's oeuvre.
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An indispensable spiritual roadmap to Israeli writer Appelfeld's fictional universe, this sophisticated study offers sensitive analyses of his novels and short-story collections. Appelfeld was nine in 1941, when Germans overran his native Bukovina in Central Europe, murdering his mother. He wandered for years across war-torn Europe, arriving in Palestine in 1946, where he was reunited with his father. Ramras-Rauch, professor of Jewish literature at Hebrew College, Boston, relates Appelfeld's personal dislocation to his fictional world, where the impossible and horrific become possible, and to his need to plumb the roots of a lost Jewish past. She discerns two patterns in his fiction: stories of prewar assimilated Jewish society, where excessive cultivation and intellectualism portend a sense of looming catastrophe; and narratives of fragmented characters, lives ruptured by the Holocaust and reduced to an elemental state wherein humans are stripped of their humanity.
Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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