Adam resurrected

by Yoram Kaniuk

Paperback, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

F KAN

Genres

Historical Fiction

General Fiction

Fiction

Collection

Your library

Publication

London : Atlantic

Description

The crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters,Adam Resurrected remains one of the most powerful works of Holocaust fiction ever written. A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam Stein is now the ringleader at an asylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holocaust survivors. Alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients, Adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madnesshas been irreversibly blurred. With the biting irony ofCatch-22, the intellectual vigor of Saul Bellow, and the pathos and humanity that are Kaniuk's hallmarks,Adam Resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption.… (more)

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LibraryThing member revslick

This is what happens when the power of survival and depravity are juxtaposed to the depth of humanities cruelty toward humanity.

This one caused some weird dreams!

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LibraryThing member Polaris-

I'm sorry - and I really tried - but I just couldn't finish this book. It took me ages to get to even the half-way point. I would put it down and come back to it ages later... It's not that it's written badly or the story is dull or the characters unbelievable. On the contrary - the characters are

fine, the plot held my interest - mostly, and the skill is evident in the author's writing. But this book just didn't really grab me. I enjoyed parts of it, but others would just feel like a chore as I turned the pages.

I look forward to the film adaptation with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Defoe ( I can't imagine them BOTH picking a duff script!) - which I hear is getting soom good early reviews. It just may be that this story will appeal to me more on the big screen? Perhaps I will go back to this book one day.... Don't like to admit I picked a dud but this is near the bottom of my books of the year list...

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