أزهار الجرانيا الحزينة

by Wolfgang Borchert, فولفغانغ بورشرت, خالد طوبار (Translator)

There is something quite unique about the fame of Wolfgang Borchert, the young German author, who died in 1947, a day alter the premiere of the dramatization of his famous book The Man Outside. He was the spokesman of the young ostracized generation at the end of the war. Then he spoke for those without hope, without a homeland or a goal – and today, almost thirty years later, his voice is still loud and clear and his message is strangely relevant.
This collection of eighteen stories was discovered among the papers of his estate. A number of the stories are fragments like “Dear Blue-Grey Night” a poetic dialogue between two lovers, and “Behind the Windows It Is Christmas,” which tells of the longing and loneliness of a soldier, but most of them, although short, are miniature masterpieces bearing witness to Borchert’s superb powers of compression.
These stories, which were written in 1946 and 1947, that most desolate period after the war when Germany was at its lowest ebb, conjure up a world of sad and lonely people, supremely poignant in imagery and mood.

Genres: German Literature, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Germany, Literature

127 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

German author and playwright whose work was affected by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. His work is among the best examples of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany. His most famous work is the drama "Draußen vor der Tür (The Man Outside)", which he wrote in the first days after World War II. In his works he never makes compromises in questions of humanity and humanism. He is one of the most popular authors of the German postwar period, and today his work is often read in German schools.

Reviews

[Vit Babenco · Rating 5 out of 5]

He is lonely and lethally ill… So are his stories…
She and he… They are nameless… They’re incompatible…

“And yet I am such a harmonious person,” she whispered. “And how I love symmetry. Just look at my two geraniums on the window ledge. There’s one on the right and one on the left – symmetrical. No, you must believe me, inwardly I am quite different. Quite different.”

And they are as sad as those sad geraniums…
And if there are some moments of joy then they are so brief… Like a flash of lightning…

When the first flash went across the sky like a rip the girl reached for the hand of the young man and pressed it to her breast. The thunder barked petulantly above the roof tops. For seconds both closed their eyes.

But even moroseness and melancholy may be darkly poetical…

In the end only the wind will remain. When everything else is gone, tears, hunger, machines and music, then there will only be the wind left. He will outlive everything, stone and street, even immortal love. And he will sing comfortingly in the sparse shrubs which crown our snow-clad graves. And on summer evenings he will court the sweet flowers and playfully dance with them – today, tomorrow, always.

Anguish, loneliness, abandonment, solitude… There are too much of those in the world…

Birds, towels and horns annoy me because I can’t join in, because I’m ill: tap – tap – bang – bang.
But I am making every effort to be patient, like a martyr whose fingernails are being burned off and who wants to please God with his angelic patience.

When the times are sad we are filled with sadness.

[Ahmed Oraby · Rating 3 out of 5]

مجموعة قصصية لطيفة للغاية، للأديب والمسرحي الألماني بورشرت، مع مقدمة خفيفة - صفحة واحدة فقط - لخالد طوبار مترجم الكتاب، حول بورشرت وحياته وأدبه ومسرحه وشعره، قرأت لبورشرت من قبل مجموعة أخرى بترجمة سمير جريس - بارك الله في عمره - وهي سن الأسد، وعلى الرغم من أني لا أذكر منها شيئًا تقريبًا سوى قصة تحكي عن شخص عجوز يعاني بالمشفى قبل أن يموت - تقريبًا، إلا أني أذكر أن القراءة لبورشرت مميزة وإن لم تكن كل قصصه كذلك، فقصصه لها طابع خاص وروح وأجواء كلها إما حول الموت أو الحب أو الحرب أو الحياة وتفاصيلها الدقيقة
في المجموعة هذه تقرأ حول المرض - في أول قصة، الكريز، وتقرأ عن القدر وتقلباته - قصة الذبابة - وتقرأ عن الحب وكيف يلتهم ذاته - في قصة مارجريت
ترجمة خالد طوبار جميلة، وإن كان يعيب الكتاب كثرة أخطائه اللغوية من جهة، والنحوية الإعرابية من جهة، وفي الصياغة من جهة أخرى، حيث يكون السياق غير واضح أو مفهوم مما لا يجعل القارئ يفهم المراد من الكلام، لكن عدا ذلك فالمجموعة جميلة للغاية قرأتها ما بين خط رمسيس - الجيزة وكانت خير صاحب ورفيق
وجدت كتاب آخر لبورشرت وهو أمام الباب، على أمل أن أقرؤه قريبًا

[Myra Breckinridge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Borchert’s writing “in a feverish race against death” (as the inside flap explains), creates a dreary, but still a frenetic and lively collection. Rapid sentences pour across the page … a man determined to remove the stories from his body and immortalize his experience in the few moments he had left.

[Leon Jurdzinski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es heißt, Kurzgeschichten seien die am schwersten zu meisternde Form der Prosa. Einen Satz zu denken und anschließend aufzuschreiben, scheinen direktverbundene Geschwister des Schreibhandwerks zu sein. Doch selten gelingt es, die in Gedanken erlebte Schönheit eines Satzes, seiner Formulierung und die Harmonie der Worte untereinander ebenbürtig aufs Papier zu bannen.
Ein Wort assoziiert viele Weitere, man schreibt es auf, doch als hätte man es nie gewusst, steht man dort, sitzt vielleicht, und hat ein einzelnes einsames Wörtchen aufs Blatt gekritzelt. Und was soll folgen? Was muss folgen? Zu groß die Möglichkeiten, die Auswahl an anderen schönene Begriffen. Und so lässt man es.

Ein Satz, ein Absatz, die Seite an sich in Kurzgeschichten und ganzen Büchern. All diese verschiedenen Formen von Literatur da draußen, sind nicht etwa einfach Sprache. Jede Geschichte kennt ihre Worte. Doch nur die wenigsten verstehen ihre Geschichten, wissen, ihr zu zuhören und schreiben die Worte wie sie gehören.

Wolfgang Borchert war einer dieser wenigen. Es ist eine unbedingte Empfehlung an alle Menschen, diese Kurzgeschichtensammlung zu lesen, sich wiederzufinden in Borcherts Figuren. Denn Borcherts Figuren sind die menschlichsten. Getrieben von Einfachheit, in den Wirren und der ewigen moralischen Erschütterungen des dritten Reiches, scheint der Autor sie entworfen zu haben, stellvertretend für sich selbst und viele andere, wie sie naive Entscheidungen treffen, kindliche Handlungen üben und sich immerzu wundern. Und ganz selten blitzt es durch, dass doch jeder Schmerz real ist und nur die Sicht der Kinder Linderung verspricht.

[Radwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

مجموعة من القصص القصيرة للألماني بورشرت
اعجبتني قصص كثيرة بالأخص قصة الكريز، أزهار الجرانيا الحزينة، السور وأخشاب الغد
قصة الناب كانت طفولية رائعة وبها شئ من الفكاهة وهو جديد في قصص بورشرت الحزينة

[Mahmoud · Rating 5 out of 5]

تحفة, رغم ان المؤلف مات وهو عنده 26 سنة بس, الا انه كان بليغ جدا خصوصاً فى تشخيص الاشياء زى سلسلة المفاتيح فى قصة"قبل الغروب", الكتاب يغلب عليه نغمة حزن اعتقد ده بسبب الظروف اللى عاش فيها المؤلف زى الحرب و السجن ومرضه اللى مات بسببه.

[Dilara · Rating 3 out of 5]

İsmi sebebiyle alıp okuduğum ve çok fazla beklenti içine girmediğim kitap. Beni biraz şaşırttı.

[Leslie]

It doesn't stay with you, emotionally, as much as The Man Outside does.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Teilweise berührend-schön und selbst die belangloseren Teile fand ich durchaus noch eine Freude zu lesen.

[Carlos · Rating 1 out of 5]

More than short stories a lot of these are sketches of scenes that hint at what they could become. Borchert didn’t live to see - or perhaps intend for - these stories to be published. This leaves the reader to try to read into these fragments, some more developed than others, a maturity of theme and style that is not there. Perhaps kinder, or more imaginative, readers will get more out of these stories.

[Selina]

DNF
How do you DNF short story collections? The stories made me depressed lol

[Karin · Rating 5 out of 5]

you and me

[Carlos Harfmann · Rating 4 out of 5]

toll toll toll!

[Hacer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Özellikle Karahindiba kült olmuş ve klasikler arasında yer alması gereken bir hikaye. Sırf o hikaye için tüm kitap okunmalı. II. Dünya Savaşı ve sonrası insan hallerini anlamak için okumalı

[Books and Stuff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ich habe mich eigentlich auf das Buch gefreut, da ich "Draußen vor der Tür" so gern mochte, aber leider haben mich diese Kurzgeschichten emotional nicht so gefesselt.