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One Hundred Saturdays de Michael Frank

One Hundred Saturdays

Autor Michael Frank Ilustrat de Maira Kalman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 sep 2023

Dacă figurile centrale ale memoriei Holocaustului, precum Primo Levi sau Elie Wiesel, s-au concentrat pe trauma lagărelor din Europa Centrală, One Hundred Saturdays ne propune o perspectivă mediteraneeană rară, ancorată în lumina insulei Rodos. Reținem cu emoție modul în care Michael Frank reușește să recupereze nu doar tragedia, ci și viața vibrantă a unei comunități sefarde care a înflorit timp de o jumătate de mileniu înainte de a fi ștearsă de pe hartă. Abordarea jurnalistică și intimă evocă A Hug from Afar, dar perspectiva este aici mult mai amplă, transformându-se dintr-un simplu schimb de scrisori într-o cronică orală desfășurată pe parcursul a șase ani de întâlniri săptămânale. Notăm faptul că această lucrare reprezintă o schimbare de ton față de universul ficțiunii psihologice explorat de Michael Frank în What Is Missing. Aici, autorul renunță la construcția narativă de tip roman pentru a deveni un ascultător atent, lăsând vocea Stellei Levi să domine textul. Stella, o „Șeherazada modernă”, descrie cu o claritate uluitoare la cei 99 de ani ai săi drumul forțat din iulie 1944: o călătorie epuizantă cu barca și trenul către Auschwitz, marcată ca fiind cea mai lungă deportare din punct de vedere geografic. Merită menționat că experiența lecturii este îmbogățită vizual de ilustrațiile Maira Kalman, care adaugă o dimensiune onirică și caldă amintirilor despre Juderia. Nu este doar un volum de istorie, ci un portret al rezilienței umane, scris într-un moment critic, înainte ca aceste voci să dispară definitiv. Textul pendulează între nostalgia străzilor din Rodos și realitatea brutală a selecției de la Auschwitz, oferind o lecție despre cum se poate reconstrui o identitate după distrugerea totală a lumii natale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781982167233
ISBN-10: 1982167238
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 137 x 212 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

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Vă recomandăm această carte pentru modul unic în care împletește biografia cu arta vizuală. Cititorul câștigă acces la o bucată de istorie sefardă puțin cunoscută, prezentată nu ca o statistică, ci ca o conversație caldă între prieteni. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care apreciază memoriile despre supraviețuire și reziliență culturală, oferind un omagiu vibrant unei lumi care a refuzat să fie complet uitată.

Despre autor

Michael Frank este un scriitor american versat, cunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale despre arhitectură și design în publicații de prestigiu precum „Architectural Digest” și „The New York Times”. Experiența sa în observarea detaliului estetic și a structurii se reflectă în modul minuțios în care a documentat viața Stellei Levi. Pe lângă eseuri și ficțiune scurtă, el este autorul romanului What Is Missing. În One Hundred Saturdays, Frank își demonstrează măiestria de intervievator, reușind să construiască o punte între jurnalismul cultural și literatura de mărturie, recunoscută prin premii importante în domeniul culturii evreiești.

Descriere scurtă

"The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale."--Amazon.

Notă biografică

Michael Frank is the author of the memoir The Mighty Franks and the novel What is Missing. His essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The TLS, among other publications. He served as a Contributing Writer to the Los Angeles Times Book Review for nearly ten years. A recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives with his family in New York City and Liguria, Italy.Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv in 1949 and is an artist, writer, illustrator and designer to over thirty books for adults and children. She is a contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times and lives in New York City with her family.

Recenzii

Never underestimate the power of friendship at any stage in life. That's one of the lessons from Michael Frank's beautiful portrait of the wise and charming nonagenarian, Stella Levi, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors from the vanished Sephardic community of the Juderia on the Greek island of Rhodes. In relaying her life story, Mr. Frank has pulled off something special: One Hundred Saturdays is a sobering yet heartening book about how friendship, remembrance, and being heard can help assuage profound dislocation and loss. It is also a reminder that the ability to listen thoughtfully is a rare and significant gift.
Gifted... Told from the author's point of view over the course of 100 meetings, each with its own short chapter, this story is a unique glimpse at a forgotten history that we all must learn.
This intimate story of one remarkable woman is also the history of a people. One Hundred Saturdays is an important book, brilliantly told and illustrated, and profoundly moving.
A stunning achievement-both as a momentous historic retrieval and a work of literary art. I was gripped throughout by this thoughtful, psychologically rich conversation.
Through the polyphonic story of Stella Levi, a woman severed from her origin but deeply connected to it through memory, Michael Frank conjures up not only the eradication of the Jewish community in Rhodes, but also what preceded it: the life. His book-beautiful, sober, and affecting-is a testament to remembrance and friendship.
In One Hundred Saturdays Michael Frank entices readers to fall in love with Jewish Rhodes and its perspicacious bard, Stella Levi, a nonagenarian for whom he, too, seems to have fallen in the course of one hundred Saturdays of intimate, evocative, sometimes painful conversation. Maira Kalman's dreamy illustrations are the perfect companion to this moving book.
Incandescent... Distilled through Frank's intelligent prose and enlivened with eye-catching illustrations from [Maira] Kalman, Levi's recollections bring to vivid life the unique culture of the Juderia, its complicated colonial history, and her colorful, multilingual family as she describes how, under Italian Fascist rule in the 1920s and '30s, all traces of Judaism vanished from the public eye... Frank's narrative shines with an ebullience, thanks to the 'unusually rich, textured, and evolving' life of his utterly enchanting muse. The result provides an essential, humanist look into a dark chapter of 20th-century history.
Michael Frank has beautifully preserved the lost world of the Jews of Rhodes. He manages to give us-deftly and with great economy-both Stella's moving personal story and a vivid sense of the society that shaped her: a unique blend of Judeo-Spanish, Italian, French, Turkish, and Greek languages and cultures, an insular and yet cosmopolitan world that the Nazis effectively extinguished.
Stella Levi, now in her late nineties, is a reluctant Scheherazade. Michael Frank, her interlocutor, has a storyteller's genius for listening. Theirs is a bond that transcends generations, languages, and lived experience. Together they have collaborated on a riveting portrait of a singular young woman who grew up in the old Jewish quarter of Rhodes, dreamed of a vibrant life in Europe, suffered deportation to a series of Nazi death camps, lost her family and her bearings, and made it to the other side. But Scheherazade told stories to survive. Stella Levi's story illuminates the mysteries of survival.
Like his subject, Stella Levi, Michael Frank is a master storyteller. He knows how to dole out information in a way that is nothing short of brilliant, and in One Hundred Saturdays he even manages to infuse the ghostly past with an air of lively, sympathetic suspense.
A poignant and absolutely necessary addition to the canon of Holocaust literature. Through Michael's questions, which showcase trust and friendship that grows between interviewer and interviewee, and gorgeous illustrations from artist Maira Kalman, One Hundred Saturdays paints remarkable dual portraits. The first is of a vibrant Sephardic community which was decimated by the Nazis and is still often omitted from Holocaust histories. And the second is, of course, of Stella Levi and the chapters of her life: child, prisoner, survivor, wanderer, wife and mother and, now, storyteller.
Reading [One Hundred Saturdays] is like watching an artist piece together a mosaic. A splash of blue sea here. A mother's song over there. The smell of Purim pastries. The flash of first love... Maira Kalman's illustrations, heavily influenced by Matisse with their deceptive simplicity, rich colors and delicate textures, are perfect complements to Levi's story, portraying vanished scenes from life on Rhodes before the Holocaust. Together with the text of Frank's beautiful book, they create a sensitive portrait of an extraordinary woman.
One Hundred Saturdays is, quite simply, essential reading.
Praise for The Mighty Franks
A marvelous, clear-eyed memoir ... almost thriller-like ... beautifully written
It was so good that I had to read it twice
Frank is a master of self-reflection, under the bowl of blue sky and in those closeted canyons. He says nothing in an ordinary way; everything has a dreamlike smoothness, born out of his extended act of retrieval and the remembered violence of emotion and inconstancy ... I doubt you'll read a better memoir this year
Witty, moving ... beautifully written and timely
[Michael Frank] seems to have had an unearthly quality of perspective ... There is a lastingly sane quality to his riveting memoir that's reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird ... an extraordinary tale
A narrative that could unfold only in a place where fantasy and reality blur with treacherous ease ... The author connects the dots subtly between his relatives' capacity for self-invention and their employment in the dream factory ... [A] probing and radiantly polished account