Gotz and Meyer (Serbian Literature Series) - Softcover

Albahari, David; Elias–bursac, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628970928 ISBN 13: 9781628970920

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2015

Synopsis

A Jewish schoolteacher tells the story of Wilhelm G tz and Erwin Meyer in the process of researching the deaths of his relatives during World War II. These two SS officers were assigned to drive a hermetically sealed truck in which concentration-camp prisoners were slowly asphyxiated. Soon this knowledge overwhelms day-to-day life, and the teacher comes to see past and present merge in a heartbreaking moment of remembrance. Among the best and most haunting novels about the Holocaust to emerge in the final years of the twentieth century, G tz and Meyer is David Albahari's masterpiece.

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Review:

"At once a novel, fictional biography, history and meta-fictional commentary, G?tz and Meyer, composed in a single hallucinatory paragraph without space breaks (stylistically redolent of W. G. Sebald), is simultaneously a masterful addition to the literature of the Holocaust and a fascinating philosophical meditation on that enormity." --San Francisco Chronicle

A remarkable, unforgettable novel.--Laura Farmer"The Gazette" (01/01/0001)

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'A beautiful, soul-searching and genuinely tragi-comic novel' Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1628970928
• ISBN 13: 9781628970920
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180