Der Ewige Jude, Vol. 2

by Eugène Sue

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Genres: Fiction

274 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1845

About the author

From Wikipedia:

Joseph Marie Eugène Sue (20 January 1804 – 3 August 1857) was a French novelist.
He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino (1828). In 1829 his father's death put him in possession of a considerable fortune, and he settled in Paris.
A street in Paris is named for Eugene Sue, in the 18th Arrondissement: Rue Eugene Sue is located near the Poissonnière Metro station, and is not far from Montmartre and the Basilica of the Sacré Coeur.

Reviews

[Roberto · Rating 5 out of 5]

muy buen libro...

Lo lei hace un par de años, situada en europa de siglo XVIII, cuenta las aventuras de los descendientes de una familia caida en desgracia, los intentos de los jesuitas por apoderarse de una cuantiosa herencia.

Maravillos narrativa, aveces un poco pesada, pero siempre intrigante, con personajes muy estereitipados, pero que clasico no los tiene.

Muy recomendable

[Armin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gut gemeinter Schund, der zweite Teil der Anti-Jesuiten-Saga fällt erst recht in diese Kategorie. Schrecklicher Sozialkitsch. Das Umstricken der allmächtigen Dunkelmänner auf die Juden des Prager Friedhofs ist ein Hauptvorwurf an Retcliffes Biarritz-Fragment, das sich ja als kritische Masse für die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion erwiesen hat. Im Vergleich zu dem Schurken-Schund, den Sue hier fabriziert, war Retcliffe ein Menschfreund. Auf jeden Fall ist der Deutsche ein besserer Schriftsteller und Realist. Absturz in Not, das Opfer von Ausbeutung zu sein, schlägt sich auch im Wesen von Rs Personal aus der Unterschicht nieder, Sue zeichnet nur moralische Idealgestalten. Die halt immer wieder in die Netze der allwissenden Spitzelorganisation der Jesuiten geraten. Dabei aber, immer wieder, auf unerklärliche Weise der Skalpierung oder der Haft (in Todeszellen) entgehen. Dank der Helfer Ahasver und Hérodias, die damit an ihrer Erlösung vom Fluch aus Christi Zeiten arbeiten.

[Nestor Martinez · Rating 1 out of 5]

En lo personal, no me termino de gustar; tiene momentos interesantes pero en general la trama no me atrapó.

[Neeta · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Wandering Jew is an over 1200 page story written in 1844 by a French author. The actual figure of the Wandering Jew has minimal appearance in the story. It is a story of descendants of Huguenots that are persecuted by the Jesuits who try to steal an immense family fortune that has been accumulating for 150 years to be divided amongst surviving family members. And somehow these family members are also descendants of the wandering Jew. I don’t get that part, but it doesn’t matter. The story was serialized in newspapers when first published so it is very long, like Count of Monte Cristo eat your heart out long. But it oozes with classic gothic elements — a hunchback, dungeon, convent, nuns, creepy priest, an East Indian to add in the exotic, an old soldier, etc. It bursts with betrayals and melodramatic acts of loyalty. The story starts out in Siberia with the mysterious Wandering Jew and then tells of an old soldier given a mission by a dying mother to take her twin daughters out of Siberia and reunite them with their father. Not sure why the book is not up there with the classic gothic greats. Overall 4 stores but the gothic elements get a 5. I’m taking a break before tackling part II, though.