Immortal Bartfuss

Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn. Using the techniques of omission and indirection perfected in such masterpieces as Badenheim 1939 and To the Land of the Cattails, Appelfeld tells the story of Bartfuss, enigmatically "the immortal" because of his experience in the camps. Now locked in a hopeless marriage, Bartfuss struggles to suppress the emotions and recollections he fears and despises, while trying to keep alive the poise, dignity, and compassion essential to a human being. The Immortal Bartfuss is an overwhelming and unforgettable study of a man reduced to his tragic limits.

Summary

Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn. Using the techniques of omission and indirection perfected in such masterpieces as Badenheim 1939 and To the Land of the Cattails, Appelfeld tells the story of Bartfuss, enigmatically "the immortal" because of his experience in the camps. Now locked in a hopeless marriage, Bartfuss struggles to suppress the emotions and recollections he fears and despises, while trying to keep alive the poise, dignity, and compassion essential to a human being. The Immortal Bartfuss is an overwhelming and unforgettable study of a man reduced to his tragic limits.

Product details

• Authors: Aharon Appelfeld, Aron Appelfeld, Appelfeld Aharon, COLLECTIF
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1994
• EAN: 9780802133588
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3358-8
• No. of pages: 138
• Series: Appelfeld, Aharon; Appelfeld, Aharon
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Israel, Fiction: general & literary, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Relating to Jewish people & groups, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Jewish, Holocaust survivor;memories;human dignity;tragic