The Story of a Life
by Aharon Appelfeld · first published 2004
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In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist shares with us--for the first time--the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth.Aharon Appelfeld's childhood ended when he was seven years old. The Nazis occupied Czernowitz in 1941, penned the Jews into a ghetto, and, a few months later, sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around them, Aharon and his father (his mother was killed in the early days of the occupation) miraculo
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Journeys of the Mind by Peter Brown, a memoir of his life, chiefly as a historian of late antiquity. It is very long, the sole reason that I won't be giving it as a Christmas present. The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paukofsky, also very long.
on “Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations” ↗…holds the interest.) Philosophy: about halfway through A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Quentin Lauer. Memoir: last year read Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History by Peter Brown, The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustofsky.
on “Ask HN: What non-fiction do you read?” ↗…in this article, and in the biography on Kafka? It comes up again and again in most renowned biographies. On the surface they are about an individual, in their depths, they are about how one tells the story of a life and the many conceptual choices one takes while writing. The best make that superficial/deep relationship seamless. I guess these ones on Kafka don't. Aside, can anyone recommend the best work to start…
on “Kafka: the Impossible Biography” ↗