Голяма пържолена сага

by Ephraim Kishon, Ефраим Кишон, Диляна Ламбрева (Tranlator)

Ефраим Кишон е най-успешният съвременен еврейски сатирик. Брилянтен хумор и уникално съчетание на комични образи, абсурдно-пародийни ситуации и винаги актуални теми - това са отличителните знаци на творчеството му. Книгите на Кишон се радват на световна популярност, а събраните му семейни разкази са най-продаваната еврейска книга, като се изключи Библията.

Genres: Humor

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Ephraim Kishon (Hebrew: אפרים קישון‎) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director.

Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, as Ferenc Hoffmann (Hungarian Hoffmann Ferenc), Kishon studied sculpture and painting, and then began publishing humorous essays and writing for the stage.

During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive as the camp commandant was looking for an opponent. In another camp the Germans lined up the inmates shooting every tenth person, passing him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive." He managed to escape while being transported to the Sobibor death camp in Poland, and hid the remainder of the war disguised as "Stanko Andras", a Slovakian laborer.

After 1945 he changed his surname from Hoffmann to Kishont to disguise his Jewish heritage and returned to Hungary to study art and publish humorous plays. He immigrated to Israel in 1949 to escape the Communist regime, and an immigration officer gave him the name Ephraim Kishon.

His first marriage, in 1946 to Eva (Chawa) Klamer, ended in divorce. In 1959, he married his second wife Sara (née Lipovitz), who died in 2002. In 2003, he married the Austrian writer Lisa Witasek. He had three children: Raphael (b. 1957), Amir (b. 1963), and Renana (b. 1968).

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Reviews

[Hannes S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Großartige Geschichten die mich oft zum lachen gebracht haben. Ich mag diesen feinsinnigen "jüdischen" Humor. Leider habe ich eine gespaltene Meinung zu dem Autor, der eine relativ radikal- zionistisches Weltbild hatte. Dabei darf man aber auch nicht seine Lebensgeschichte unter dem Nationalsozialismus vergessen.

[Kristin Hogk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ephraim Kishon verkauft uns fantastische Geschichten aus seinem Alltag, die stets belanglos und authentisch beginnen und im Verlauf der Erzählung oft dermaßen abdrehen oder übertreiben, dass man einfach laut loslachen oder zumindest schmunzeln muss. Dabei nimmt Kishon nicht nur andere Nationen, sondern auch seine eigene israelische, nicht nur seine Mitmenschen, sondern auch sich selbst auf’s Korn, indem er sehr genau Beobachtetes schildert, so trivial es auch sei, aber niemals unter der Gürtellinie landet. Nicht zuletzt trägt auch seine enorme sprachliche Versiertheit zu dem ausgesprochenen Lesevergnügen bei, das ich während seiner Lektüren stets empfinde.

[Vladimir Boronenko · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read this book in German (the original being, I believe, in Hebrew) to brush up my German, having laid my hands on the book quite by accident. And for good measure, I got some real fun and many good laughs in the process.