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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
A quick read that still gets you thinking. It gets even more interesting to read if you consider the publishing year (1938) combined with the topics, the author brings up (anti-semitism and the effect of Nazi Germany).
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Max Eisenstein et Martin Schulse sont associés dans une galerie d'art de San Francisco. Max, juif américain d'origine allemande, reste expatrié tandis que Martin retourne dans son pays natal avec sa famille. Ils entament alors - en 1933 - une correspondance d'abord amicale mais qui tourne à l'aigre à mesure que Martin se laisse séduire par l'idéologie nazie.
Cette nouvelle épistolaire est d'autant plus marquante qu'elle a été écrite en 1938, sans le recul que nous avons aujourd'hui. Et par une femme, qui plus est… Elle fut d'ailleurs semi-contrainte de se choisir un pseudonyme masculin, son éditeur jugeant la nouvelle “trop forte pour être publiée sous un nom féminin”. Okay 😬.
C'est court et percutant mais se suffit à soi-même. le message n'a pas vieilli d'un poil en 86 ans!
Cette nouvelle épistolaire est d'autant plus marquante qu'elle a été écrite en 1938, sans le recul que nous avons aujourd'hui. Et par une femme, qui plus est… Elle fut d'ailleurs semi-contrainte de se choisir un pseudonyme masculin, son éditeur jugeant la nouvelle “trop forte pour être publiée sous un nom féminin”. Okay 😬.
C'est court et percutant mais se suffit à soi-même. le message n'a pas vieilli d'un poil en 86 ans!
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
This book was less than 100 pages and honestly the literature speaks for itself. There are no words that I could type here that would do this book justice. Kressman Taylor delves into the descent into Nazi German from the point of view of two friends, a Jew from Germany who is now living in America and his friend, a non Jew, who recently moved back to Germany.
To think you have been friends with someone for so long and to have gone into business with them, have shared food and drink with them in their home and to discover one day that you have no idea who this person is anymore.
To think you have been friends with someone for so long and to have gone into business with them, have shared food and drink with them in their home and to discover one day that you have no idea who this person is anymore.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism
Moderate: Genocide
Minor: War
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
i aquí tenim una altra escriptora que escriu amb un pseudònim masculí... quin llibre més intens!, i això que és curtíssim, però en poques pàgines ens parla d'una amistat que es va desintegrant amb l'alçament del nazisme, ens fa sentir vergonya i rabia pel que passa i al final, osti quin
final!
final!
This is a short but powerful and poignant read. I was swept away by a surge of emotion and outrage at multiple points throughout this concise story. The author conveyed a clear and potent statement through this collection of letters between her two main characters.
I appreciated how this fictional piece added perspective on the atrocities of WWII, and how it conveyed how fragile friendship can be in the face of political extremism. We are seeing so much extremism on both sides of the political spectrum nowadays that it feels like a chilling, cautionary tale. It feels like we are in a race to see which side will strip us of our rights first— both sides are proponents of censorship as long as it serves their agenda. Meanwhile the public is being riled up to dangerous degrees; division and hatred are spreading. I see this cautionary tale as a warning to us to NOT FORGET OUR HUMANITY. To not turn our backs on our friends over political propaganda (no matter which side it comes from). And to never give up our freedom of speech.
I appreciated how this fictional piece added perspective on the atrocities of WWII, and how it conveyed how fragile friendship can be in the face of political extremism. We are seeing so much extremism on both sides of the political spectrum nowadays that it feels like a chilling, cautionary tale. It feels like we are in a race to see which side will strip us of our rights first— both sides are proponents of censorship as long as it serves their agenda. Meanwhile the public is being riled up to dangerous degrees; division and hatred are spreading. I see this cautionary tale as a warning to us to NOT FORGET OUR HUMANITY. To not turn our backs on our friends over political propaganda (no matter which side it comes from). And to never give up our freedom of speech.
I am not sure how to rate this book. It was not what I expected. it is a series of short letters bound in a book as big as an envelope. The letters are correspondences from two men who went to college in the US together, one an American Jewish man and one a German man. They had started a gallery together in the US. It shows the corruption of the human during big change or hard times. How relationships can fall apart and ideals change with power and a swift talker. It can also be a warning to our country in its hard times not to forget our values and morals in this time of despair. To think more thoroughly about our decisions and the impacts that they make. It will be a book that stays with me from two friends to uninformative ending.