Enemies: A Love Story

by Isaac Bashevis Singer | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0141197617 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingRunningmousewing of Nürnberg, Bayern Germany on 9/25/2012
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Journal Entry 1 by wingRunningmousewing from Nürnberg, Bayern Germany on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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Journal Entry 2 by wingRunningmousewing at Literaturhaus in Nürnberg, Bayern Germany on Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (12/27/2012 UTC) at Literaturhaus in Nürnberg, Bayern Germany

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Irgendwie habe ich im Kopf, dass Lesenmachtfroh mal was von diesem Autor auf Englisch lesen wollte?
Wenn nicht, liegt es beim traditionellen Meet-up zwischen den Jahren auf dem Tisch.

Journal Entry 3 by wingLesenmachtfrohwing at Nürnberg, Bayern Germany on Thursday, December 27, 2012
Ja, nachdem ich das Landgut auf Deutsch gelesen habe, freue ich mich über das Buch von Issac B Singer in Englisch.
Danke, dass du an mich gedacht hast Runningmouse.

Amazonbesprechung:
Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife. Unsure of who he really is, what he wants and whether he can ever find peace, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of paranoia and impending doom. Published in 1972, "Enemies: A Love Story" is an astonishing novel that blends humour and pathos to create a rich, humane portrayal of a man who cannot escape his past.

Journal Entry 4 by wingLesenmachtfrohwing at Nürnberg, Bayern Germany on Monday, August 24, 2015
Gelesen für die [Bergabbau-Challenge 2015] Vom Mount Everest zum Brocken - August
IN 31 TAGEN UM DIE WELT

gilt auch für die Challenge Literaturnobelpreisträger (Isaac Bashevis Singer 1978)

Das Buch war leicht zu lesen, vielleicht weil es ursprünglich auf Yiddisch erschienen ist und dann übersetzt wurde.
Hermann jongliert mit drei Ehefrauen und kommt dabei über die Runden mit Lügen und Ausflüchten.
Über zehn Kapitel rettet er sich immer wieder aus der Situation und gerät immer Weiter in den Sog, der ans Ende führt. So traurig und tragisch die Geschichte der einzelnen Personen ist, man wird durch den skurrilen Humor des Schreibers mit scheinbarer Leichtigkeit beim lesen weitergetragen.
Mir hat's gefallen.

Journal Entry 5 by wingLesenmachtfrohwing at OBCZ Blaues Haus in Nürnberg, Bayern Germany on Thursday, August 27, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (8/27/2015 UTC) at OBCZ Blaues Haus in Nürnberg, Bayern Germany

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Geht mit zum Treffen

Viel Freude dem Finder an dem Buch!
Ich hoffe, du findest die Idee einer "weltweiten Bibliothek" ebenso spannend wie ich!
Dir, liebes Buch, eine gute Reise und lass mal von dir hören!




Journal Entry 6 by litrajunkie at Nürnberg, Bayern Germany on Friday, August 28, 2015
Lesenmachfroh recommended this to me during yesterday's meetup. The author's name was familiar to me, since I've seen Barbara Streisand's movie adaptation of his short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy".

Let's see what this author has to offer.

Journal Entry 7 by litrajunkie at Pretzfeld, Bayern Germany on Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Herman Broder is a Polish Jew who survived the holocaust and made it to America, where he lives in Coney Island, married to Yadwiga, a Polish Gentile peasant girl who saved his life in the old country by hiding him in her hayloft. Tamara, Herman's first wife, was shot to death together with their two children. Herman works for a rabbi and has a mistress in the Bronx. When he goes to visit Masha, he tells Yadwiga that he's traveling in order to sell books.

This arrangement starts to break apart as both Yadwiga and Masha become pregnant and Tamara arrives in America. The eye-witness report of her death was obviously false. The novel shows how the uprooted people try to gain a foothold in America, earn a living and patch up their torn lives. Some succeed, many fail. After years in concentration camps, on the run or in hiding, they are tired, harried and unsure of themselves and their place in the world.

The suffering and the turmoil caused by both world wars and the holocaust goes on long after the bullets have stopped flying and the actual killing has ended. The characters cannot extricate themselves from the havoc that barbaric and criminal persecution has wreaked on their lives. Like a person caught in quicksand, their every move only serves to land them deeper in the trap; with every loyalty honored, there's another one broken.

Quotable Quotes
• He had given the rabbi a false address at which to have a telephone installed, but it seemed the rabbi had forgotten all about it. Thank God, he was too preoccupied with his own business to remember. The rabbi made notes, but he never consulted them. None of the old philosophers and thinkers could have foreseen an epoch such as this one: the helter-skelter epoch. Work in haste, eat in haste, speak in haste, even die in haste. Perhaps rushing was one of God's attributes. (p. 57)
• It's impossible to talk sensibly to refugees, because no matter what you have to tell, someone will say that it happened just the other way around. (p. 149)
• My theory is that the human species is getting worse, not better. I believe, so to speak, in an evolution in reverse. The last man on earth will be both a criminal and a madman. (S. 150)

Journal Entry 8 by litrajunkie at Bücherschrank Nürnberger Straße in Erlangen, Bayern Germany on Monday, November 7, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (11/5/2016 UTC) at Bücherschrank Nürnberger Straße in Erlangen, Bayern Germany

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Happy trails! I'm looking forward to many JEs.

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