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A review by etiberland
Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
5.0
Only Shalom Auslander can say what everyone is too afraid to say about the Holocaust. Like a modern day Flannery O'Connor, he uses violence and darkness to get to the truth, to the heart of suffering and loss - and with humor and wit.
Favorite lines:
The glory was in the rising, fool, not in having burned! We all burn, everyone burns. Burning doesn't make you special!
Not the agony of what was, but the agony of what was no longer; this was the source of all life's pain - not the fear of hell to come, but rather the knowledge of an Eden that is no more. Hell isn't the punishment, said Professor Jove. Eden was.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he was a schmuch... because he thought tehre might be something better on the other side.
Why did children always draw the sun smiling? he wondered. It's a giant ball of fire, kids. It's rage and fury. Whatever it's doing, it isn't f-ing smiling.
Favorite lines:
The glory was in the rising, fool, not in having burned! We all burn, everyone burns. Burning doesn't make you special!
Not the agony of what was, but the agony of what was no longer; this was the source of all life's pain - not the fear of hell to come, but rather the knowledge of an Eden that is no more. Hell isn't the punishment, said Professor Jove. Eden was.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he was a schmuch... because he thought tehre might be something better on the other side.
Why did children always draw the sun smiling? he wondered. It's a giant ball of fire, kids. It's rage and fury. Whatever it's doing, it isn't f-ing smiling.