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Chargement... Katerina (original 1989; édition 2006)par Aharon Apelfeld, Yaacov Jeffrey Green
Information sur l'oeuvreKaterina par Aharon Appelfeld (1989)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Katerina ist eine junge Ukrainerin Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. In ihrer ländlichen ruthenischen Familie erfährt sie nur Lieblosigkeit. Sie beginnt als Dienstmädchen bei Juden zu arbeiten, deren Leben und Bräuche sie faszinieren. Ihre jüdischen Arbeitgeber, die sie liebt, werden bei einem Pogrom ermordet. Sie rettet deren Kinder, doch diese werden ihr weggenommen. Katerina ist fasziniert von den Juden, die überall sonst aufs Ärgste verachtet und bekämpft werden. Ihr eigener Lebensweg geht traurig weiter. In diesem Buch ist er sehr reduziert auf die Tatsache, dass Katerina die Juden mag und bei ihnen das findet, was ihr im eigenen Dorf verwehrt bleibt, nämlich Achtung und Anerkennung. Doch eine tragfähige Hauptfigur entsteht durch diese Reduktion nicht. Das Buch liest sich wie eine Parabel. Alle Figuren sind vor allem durch ihre Religionszugehörigkeit gekennzeichnet. So war das wohl auch wirklich –die Religion verstellte den Blick auf den Menschen. Ich mag den Stil, in dem das Buch geschrieben ist. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the family’s customs and rituals into her own Christian observances, Katerina is traumatized when the parents are murdered in separate pogroms and the children are taken away by relatives. She finds work with other Jewish families, all of whom are subjected to relentless persecution by their neighbors. When the beloved child she had with her Jewish lover is murdered, Katerina kills the murderer and is sent to prison. Released from prison years later, in the chaos following the end of World War II, a now elderly Katerina is devastated to find a world that has been emptied of its Jews and that is not at all sorry to see them gone. Ever the outsider, Katerina realizes that she has survived only to bear witness to the fact that these people had ever existed at all. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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By sally tarbox on 1 October 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
The novel opens with Katerina, an eighty-year old woman, looking out of the window of her cottage in the Ukraine - the home she grew up in but spent so many years away from - and musing over the past.
We go back to her youth, daughter of a harsh and abusive peasant family. And she recalls the large Jewish population - their 'otherness': "Thin Jews used to gather like grasshoppers and sell their wares. They were one of the frightening wonders of my childhood. With their appearance, their way of sitting and bargaining, they weren't like creatures of this world but like dark spirits scuttling about on spindly legs."
But homeless and destitite, Katerina finds herself working for a Jewish family and gradually allying herself more with this group than with her hate-filled Ruthenian neighbours.
This is a strange and dream-like tale which brings to mind paintings by Chagall. Katerina's life covers the years before and during WW2; she relates the anti-semitic attitudes of those around her - and the prejudice against herself for her new friends - and recalls the ever-present trains in the background taking the Jews away. But it's all kind of vague - no politics or warfare, just the incidents that she suffers. It clarifies how the holocaust came about, with the unreasoning herd-mentality of the people blaming the Jews for some unspecified crime (often the fact that they "killed Jesus" ).
An unusual little tale that also pictures old age and the calm and acceptance that come with years - even to those who were once fiery and passionate. ( )