Hourglass
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374172870 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"As the concentration camp looms" according to Ethan Cooper. In HOURGLASS, Danilo Kis describes the experiences of E.S., a 5As the concentration camp looms In HOURGLASS, Danilo Kis describes the experiences of E.S., a 53 year-old Serbian Jew in March and April of 19As the concentration camp looms Ethan Cooper In HOURGLASS, Danilo Kis describes the experiences of E.S., a 53 year-old Serbian Jew in March and April of 1942. E.S. lives on borrowed money, has a toxic family life, and has problems with his legal papers, which necessitates the indignities and dangers of travel. In HOURGLASS, the hapless E.S. seeks to restore order to his muddled life. As he does so, he worries that he, a retired and not robust former railroad employee, may soon be called back to work, even though he is gripped by forebodings and his. 2. E.S. lives on borrowed money, has a toxic family life, and has problems with his legal papers, which necessitates the indignities and dangers of travel. In HOURGLASS, the hapless E.S. seeks to restore order to his muddled life. As he does so, he worries that he, a retired and not robust former railroad employee, may soon be called back to work, even though he is gripped by forebodings and his. year-old Serbian Jew in March and April of 19As the concentration camp looms Ethan Cooper In HOURGLASS, Danilo Kis describes the experiences of E.S., a 53 year-old Serbian Jew in March and April of 1942. E.S. lives on borrowed money, has a toxic family life, and has problems with his legal papers, which necessitates the indignities and dangers of travel. In HOURGLASS, the hapless E.S. seeks to restore order to his muddled life. As he does so, he worries that he, a retired and not robust former railroad employee, may soon be called back to work, even though he is gripped by forebodings and his. 2. E.S. lives on borrowed money, has a toxic family life, and has problems with his legal papers, which necessitates the indignities and dangers of travel. In HOURGLASS, the hapless E.S. seeks to restore order to his muddled life. As he does so, he worries that he, a retired and not robust former railroad employee, may soon be called back to work, even though he is gripped by forebodings and his. Train into the Far If Franz Kafka's Joseph K. had lived in the early 19Train into the Far fmeursault@yahoo.com If Franz Kafka's Joseph K. had lived in the early 1940's and been ordered to wear a yellow star in Czechoslovakia, he would have resembled a character known only as E. S. in this story of wartime Hungary by Danilo Kis. The trial of an individual and his family at the hands of a vague and hidden totalitarian force are described with growing horror and gallows humor in ''Hourglass,'' a chilling novel in which time is running out for a marked man riding along the tracks of mortification. One of the trains h. 0's and been ordered to wear a yellow star in Czechoslovakia, he would have resembled a character known only as E. S. in this story of wartime Hungary by Danilo Kis. The trial of an individual and his family at the hands of a vague and hidden totalitarian force are described with growing horror and gallows humor in ''Hourglass,'' a chilling novel in which time is running out for a marked man riding along the tracks of mortification. One of the trains h. Provocative, but also rather soporific and distant John L Murphy The "catechetic rhetoric" of the question & answer exchanges throughout the Criminal Investigation segments make for never less than fascinating reading. They evoke not only Kafka but Joyce in his Ithaca chapter of Ulysses; the omniscient and patiently probing inquisitor, here, finally gets "ES" to admit his weariness, but the rare entry of the interrogated into the set-up only enhances its blended horror and suspense.This ambitious novel, in its other modes of transmission, "Diary of a Madman," and Trav
whose quotidian concerns include antagonism toward his well-to-do sister Netty, quarrels with her son George about a piece of jointly owned property, and futile, indignant inquiries to the authorities about why his pension has been reduced. Set in 1942, the novel describes in rich, Kafka-esque terms the external and internal worlds of a railway clerk called E.S. . But Kis uses this "life" of a victim as a counterpoint to his second story line, which matter of factly reveals an exploding, horrific world in which Jews are murdered in countless mundane or outlandish ways, commit suicide, or simply disappear while the general population goes mad. A final "letter" reveals that the preceding text is a manuscript, written by E.S., meant to be "a bourgeois horror story," a telling summation of this ultimately rewarding novel. The novel is fleshed o
It is full of pain and rage and gusto and joy of living, at once side-splitting and a heartbreaker".--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD.. "A finely sustained, complex fictional performance. Of all Danilo Kis's books, HOURGLASS, the account of the final months in one man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, is generally considered his masterpiece