Pension
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The novel "Pension" of the Polish writer Peter Pazinsky (b. 1973) was called critics "first literary voice of the generation of the grandchildren of the Holocaust."
A novel about a trip to the world of childhood, to the old Jewish boarding house near Warsaw, where the hero of the book is" The last of the chain of generations that seized at the very tip, ”spent once a vacation with his grandmother. As he now understands, this place seemed a handful of the surviving Polish Jews "refuge in the desert, a stop on the path of wandering", "Ark". The boarding house has almost empty - most of the guests have long been in the next world, and those who wander around the rooms are more like a ghost than people from flesh and blood. So a little remained from the previous world ... Meeting either with its last guests, or with the shadows - characters from the past, he plunges into childhood, feeling his own inextricable connection with the elderly. This is a poetic and at the same time the grotesque elegy to the outgoing world.
"This book," Archeology of Memory ", does not allow to finally sink into the fly to the world that he recalls ..." ("Gazeta Vygroch")
"I hastily poured out the contents of the bundles on the table and began to lay out old photos like a solitaire ... Maybe only the case allowed these people to testify, scream and mourn and never forget or forget forever, but still remember - from Generations to generation, to the end, until the last breath or even one day longer ... "(Peter Pazinsky)
A novel about a trip to the world of childhood, to the old Jewish boarding house near Warsaw, where the hero of the book is" The last of the chain of generations that seized at the very tip, ”spent once a vacation with his grandmother. As he now understands, this place seemed a handful of the surviving Polish Jews "refuge in the desert, a stop on the path of wandering", "Ark". The boarding house has almost empty - most of the guests have long been in the next world, and those who wander around the rooms are more like a ghost than people from flesh and blood. So a little remained from the previous world ... Meeting either with its last guests, or with the shadows - characters from the past, he plunges into childhood, feeling his own inextricable connection with the elderly. This is a poetic and at the same time the grotesque elegy to the outgoing world.
"This book," Archeology of Memory ", does not allow to finally sink into the fly to the world that he recalls ..." ("Gazeta Vygroch")
"I hastily poured out the contents of the bundles on the table and began to lay out old photos like a solitaire ... Maybe only the case allowed these people to testify, scream and mourn and never forget or forget forever, but still remember - from Generations to generation, to the end, until the last breath or even one day longer ... "(Peter Pazinsky)
Author:
Author:Pazinsky Peter
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-7516-1469-0
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