الثورة الهادئة

by Ödön von Horváth, حسن رمضان (ترجمة), باهر محمد الجوهري (مراجعة)

Kleinbürger ohne Hoffnung – eine zerfallende Gesellschaft. Ödön von Horvárt erzählt die Geschichten von Männern und Frauen, den nicht mehr viel zum Leben bleibt.
Drastische Geschichten von Armut und ausgelebter wie erlebter Willkür.

Genres: Classics

141 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Ödön von Horváth was a German-writing, Austro-Hungarian-born, playwright and novelist. Important topics in Horváth's works were popular culture, politics and history. He especially tried to warn of the dawn of fascism and its dangers. Among Horváth's most enduringly popular works, Jugend ohne Gott describes the youth in Nazi Germany from a disgruntled teacher's point of view, who, himself at first an opportunist, is helpless against the racist and militaristic Nazi propaganda that his pupils are subjected to and that dehumanizes them and, at last, loses his job but gains his identity.

Having always lived in fear of being struck by lightning, in Paris Horváth was hit by a falling branch and killed during a thunderstorm on the Champs-Élysées, opposite the Théâtre Marigny.

His famous quote:

"If you ask me what is my native country, I answer: I was born in Fiume, grew up in Belgrade, Budapest, Pressburg [Bratislava], Vienna and Munich, and I have a Hungarian passport, but I have no fatherland. I am a very typical mix of old Austria-Hungary: at once Magyar, Croatian, German and Czech; my country is Hungary; my mother tongue is German."

Reviews

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

إنها فعلًا ثورة هادئة. كتاب عن التفاصيل اليومية المعتادة التي تبدو بسيطة وهينة لكنها تجعل الناس العادية تثور فجأة دون أن تفكر بالثورة أو تخطط لها.
لغة مباشرة وبسيطة فلا داعي للتكلف.
أحداث بسيطة لكنها عميقة الأثر وممتعة القراءة.