PERLA - Softcover

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496201027 ISBN 13: 9781496201027

Verlag: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS, 2017

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"Luminous pages, the beauty of well-written phrases, the delicate and pure style of an author one absolutely must discover."-Mohammed Aissaoui, Le Figaro Litteraire * Le Figaro Litteraire * "Simple and clear in its language yet still capable of spanning a large and complicated subject. . . . A beautiful book and a glowing bright epitaph. But also-in all its beauty-a defiant act against the great darkness. In all its shapes."-Jeppe Krogsgaard Christensen, Berlinske * Berlinske * "Startling in its resplendent gentleness."-Valerie Marin La Meslee, Le Point * Le Point * "[Frederic Brun's] first novel strikes its reader by its questioning, its humility, and its necessity."-Alexandre Fillon, Livres-Hebdo * Livres-Hebdo *

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Perla is the story of a woman who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and would ultimately die unable to extricate herself from its corrosive memory. It is told from the point of view of her son, who, not long after losing her, learns that he is about to become a father. These two events become the impetus for reconstructing Perla's past and for understanding gestation, as he's equally in the dark about what happened in his mother's life and what is taking place in his wife's womb. Strangely, at this time he finds himself drawn to the poets Novalis, Holderlin, and Schlegel, and the painter Caspar David Friedrich--founders of German romanticism who strove to capture the spiritual essence of the world. With and through them, he seeks peace and grapples with the question: How could Germany produce both the purest poetry and the most complete barbarity?

Winner of France's Goncourt Prize for a first novel, Frederic Brun's semiautobiographical novel considers the seemingly irreconcilable multiplicities of life--past and present, personal and collective, self and other, life and death.

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• Verlag: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1496201027
• ISBN 13: 9781496201027
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 90