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[S.l.] Casterman 2012
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LibraryThing member eachurch
Oddly written book (but that might be a translation problem) that was a little too simplistic. I found myself noticing how often sentences started in the same way. (For example, 'He had moved … He had gone … He had put … He'd hoped. The beginning of the next paragraph is 'He had put'. For me,
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this repetition had a distancing effect.) Two of the main characters die in the end, but I felt little sympathy for them (as characters). The repetition problem and Seksik's use of multiple viewpoints may have had something to do with this. Show Less
LibraryThing member freelancer_frank
This is a book about the last months in the lives of Stefan Zweig and his second wife, Lotte. It is factually based but written as fiction - from a subjective point of view - that gets into the minds of both characters. It is clear, precise and cerebral. It is also unremittingly sad. The only light
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comes in as negative space - through the reader's sense of the magnitude of the characters mistake - their misjudgment of circumstances and the tragedy of beauty cut short. Show Less
LibraryThing member soylentgreen23
Laurent Seksik's novel 'The Last Days' follows the final months in the life of the great writer Stefan Zweig, who fled Austria when the Nazis came to power in neighbouring Germany, and who, in 1942, committed suicide along with his wife Lotte.
'The Last Days' is a tremendously moving book. It
In short, this book is a masterpiece, written with empathy but a critical eye - this is no hagiography of the master writer - and with a novelistic touch all its own.
'The Last Days' is a tremendously moving book. It
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interweaves fact and fiction, makes real characters out of Zweig, his wife, and their friends, and brings the crushing reality of the Holocaust down on the reader in a most shocking way.In short, this book is a masterpiece, written with empathy but a critical eye - this is no hagiography of the master writer - and with a novelistic touch all its own.
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Language
Original language
French
Physical description
88 p.; 32 cm
ISBN
9789030366720