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Satires
L'ultime livre d'Edgar Hilsenrath. La publication des oeuvres complètes de cet écrivain de la Shoah (auteur des best-sellers Fuck America et Le Nazi et le Barbier) s'achève avec les Satires, dans lequel l'auteur livre son regard sur une Allemagne qu'il redécouvre après un long exil. Dans un ensemble de dialogues absurdes et souvent grotesques, Edgar Hilsenrath livre son regard sur une Allemagne qu'il redécouvre après un long exil. Nazis croupissants et veuves de guerre, travailleurs immigrés et jeune génération en quête d'identité : un survivant de la Shoah dit le dérisoire de la réalité, d'un passé irrésolu qui hante ses personnages, et c'est tout le génie de l'écrivain qui surgit à nouveau.
143 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1994
About the author
Edgar Hilsenrath
13 books84 followersEdgar Hilsenrath (born 1926) was a German-Jewish writer. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought.
Hilsenrath was born in Leipzig. In 1938 his mother escaped with her two children to Siret (Sereth), in Romanian Bukovina, where they enjoyed a respite from persecution. At the time that he should have received an entrance card to higher education, he and his mother were interned in the ghetto of Cernăuţi (Czernowitz).
He began to write about the Holocaust after his liberation when he moved to Paris. Hilsenrath also lived in Palestine, Israel, and New York.
According to Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Hilsenrath calls things by their proper names and portrays life first and foremost as physical existence, of whose details the reader is constantly made aware: birth, nursing, feeding, sex, and excretion accompanied by feelings of pleasure and pain. The rhetoric of politicians and political theory are shown to be the schemes of beings ultimately dependent on these bodily processes and subject to physical desires. Hilsenrath's very approach is a protest against disrespect toward the mortal body, against the tyranny of the mind over matter."
Hilsenrath was born in Leipzig. In 1938 his mother escaped with her two children to Siret (Sereth), in Romanian Bukovina, where they enjoyed a respite from persecution. At the time that he should have received an entrance card to higher education, he and his mother were interned in the ghetto of Cernăuţi (Czernowitz).
He began to write about the Holocaust after his liberation when he moved to Paris. Hilsenrath also lived in Palestine, Israel, and New York.
According to Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Hilsenrath calls things by their proper names and portrays life first and foremost as physical existence, of whose details the reader is constantly made aware: birth, nursing, feeding, sex, and excretion accompanied by feelings of pleasure and pain. The rhetoric of politicians and political theory are shown to be the schemes of beings ultimately dependent on these bodily processes and subject to physical desires. Hilsenrath's very approach is a protest against disrespect toward the mortal body, against the tyranny of the mind over matter."
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