Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
Autor Moriz Scheyer Traducere de P. N. Singeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 apr 2017
As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. The occupation of the Nazis forced him from both job and home. In 1943, while hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what was to become this book. Tracing events from the Anschluss in Vienna, through life in Paris and unoccupied France, including a period in a French concentration camp, contact with the Resistance, and clandestine life in a convent caring for mentally disabled women, he gives an extraordinarily vivid account of the events and experience of persecution.
After Scheyer's death in 1949, his stepson, disliking the book's anti-German rhetoric, destroyed the manuscript. Or thought he did. Recently, a carbon copy was found in the family's attic by P.N. Singer, Scheyer's step-grandson, who has translated and provided an epilogue.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316272896
ISBN-10: 0316272892
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 206 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316272892
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 206 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Moriz
Scheyer(1886-1949)
was
arts
editor
of
one
of
Vienna's
main
newspapers
from
1924
until
his
expulsion
in
1938.
A
personal
friend
of
Stefan
Zweig,
in
his
own
lifetime
he
published
three
books
of
travel
writing,
and
three
volumes
of
literary-historical
essays.
He
died
in
France
in
1949.
P. N. Singeris Scheyer's step-grandson, a writer, and translator.
P. N. Singeris Scheyer's step-grandson, a writer, and translator.
Recenzii
"'Try
to
understand
me,'
Moriz
Scheyer
begs
the
future
readers
of
his
memoir
in
1944.
And
we
do,
leaving
it
drained,
but
exhilarated
by
the
description
of
how
he
roamed
an
unfriendly
Europe,
stateless.
With
the
publication
of
this
mesmerizing
book,
his
search
for
asylum
might
just
be
over."
—Ronald C. Rosbottom,Amherst College, author of When Paris Went Dark
"Moriz Scheyer's gripping account of survival under Nazi rule is both a chilling reminder of the fragility of life in a world gone mad, and a record of the generosity of spirit and courage of people who hardly knew him but risked everything to save him. Shocking, heartbreaking, but hugely inspiring."
—Susan Ottaway,author of A Cool and Lonely Courage
"Scheyer's account of his struggle for survival as a foreign Jew under Vichy, largely written while still in hiding, is propelled by the raw passion of righteous anger. His nuanced picture of wartime France, with its collaborators and resisters, vividly underscores the power of ordinary human kindness in the face of supreme evil."—Thomas Ertman, New York University,author of Birth of the Leviathan
"A well-written book full of desperate hope, intense fear, and a demand for vigilance against the mentality of hate."—Kirkus Reviews
"His prose is unembellished - direct and simple, like that of Ernest Hemingway".—Winnipeg Free Press
—Ronald C. Rosbottom,Amherst College, author of When Paris Went Dark
"Moriz Scheyer's gripping account of survival under Nazi rule is both a chilling reminder of the fragility of life in a world gone mad, and a record of the generosity of spirit and courage of people who hardly knew him but risked everything to save him. Shocking, heartbreaking, but hugely inspiring."
—Susan Ottaway,author of A Cool and Lonely Courage
"Scheyer's account of his struggle for survival as a foreign Jew under Vichy, largely written while still in hiding, is propelled by the raw passion of righteous anger. His nuanced picture of wartime France, with its collaborators and resisters, vividly underscores the power of ordinary human kindness in the face of supreme evil."—Thomas Ertman, New York University,author of Birth of the Leviathan
"A well-written book full of desperate hope, intense fear, and a demand for vigilance against the mentality of hate."—Kirkus Reviews
"His prose is unembellished - direct and simple, like that of Ernest Hemingway".—Winnipeg Free Press