The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Autor Jonathan Freedlanden Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iun 2022
Structura acestei lucrări este construită pe rigoarea documentară a jurnalismului de investigație, recompunând viața lui Rudolf Vrba nu doar ca pe o biografie, ci ca pe o analiză a modului în care adevărul este receptat în perioade de criză. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Jonathan Freedland reușește să transforme datele istorice reci într-o narațiune vibrantă, care urmărește transformarea unui adolescent de 19 ani într-un „artist al evadării” mânat de o misiune aproape imposibilă: aceea de a avertiza lumea despre realitatea de la Auschwitz. Putem afirma că volumul depășește granițele unei simple cronici de război, devenind o reflecție asupra responsabilității individuale în fața răului sistemic. Cine a citit I Escaped from Auschwitz de Rudolf Vrba va recunoaște aici aceeași tensiune insuportabilă a evadării prin munți și râuri, însă The Escape Artist se distinge prin perspectiva panoramică pe care o oferă asupra urmărilor acelui raport. În timp ce autobiografia lui Vrba este o mărturie directă, Freedland plasează evenimentele într-un context politic mai larg, analizând de ce liderii lumii au ezitat să acționeze. Față de lucrările sale anterioare de ficțiune, precum The 3rd Woman, unde autorul explora mecanismele thrillerului speculativ, aici el își folosește talentul narativ pentru a onora faptele reale, demonstrând că realitatea depășește adesea orice scenariu de ficțiune. Este o operă care completează galeria portretelor esențiale despre Holocaust, oferindu-i lui Vrba locul cuvenit lângă nume precum Primo Levi sau Anne Frank.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1529369053
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 20 black & white photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția John Murray
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Despre autor
Jonathan Freedland este un jurnalist și scriitor britanic de renume, editor executiv la The Guardian și prezentator al seriei de istorie contemporană „The Long View” de la BBC Radio 4. Cariera sa de excepție a fost recunoscută în 2014 cu premiul special Orwell pentru jurnalism. Sub pseudonimul Sam Bourne, el a publicat mai multe romane de succes, demonstrând o abilitate rară de a îmbina acuratețea faptelor cu un stil narativ captivant. În The Escape Artist, Freedland își folosește dubla expertiză — cea de istoric și cea de romancier — pentru a scoate la lumină una dintre cele mai importante, dar uitate, figuri ale rezistenței din secolul XX.
Descriere
Shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Waterstones Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize
Longlisted for the 2022 Wingate Literary Prize
A Mail on Sunday, The Times, The Economist, Guardian, The Spectator, Time, and Daily Express/Daily Mirror Book of the Year 2022
'Thrilling' Daily Mail
'Gripping' Guardian
'Heartwrenching' Yuval Noah Harari
'Magnificent' Philip Pullman
'Excellent' Sunday Times
'Inspiring' Daily Mail
'An immediate classic' Antony Beevor
'Awe inspiring' Simon Sebag Montefiore
'Shattering' Simon Schama
'Utterly compelling' Philippe Sands
'A must-read' Emily Maitlis
'Indispensable' Howard Jacobson
April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. Evading the thousands of SS men hunting them, Vrba and Wetzler made the perilous journey on foot across Nazi-occupied Poland.
Their mission: to reveal to the world the truth of the Holocaust.
Vrba's unique testimony would save some 200,000 lives.
But he kept on running - from his past, from his home country, his adopted country, even from his own name. Now, at last, Rudolf Vrba's heroism can be known.
Recenzii
A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information - and misinformation
A magnificent book. I could scarcely breathe at some points. What a tribute to its extraordinary hero, and it's such an important and necessary story to read . . . I can't praise it too highly. What an achievement
An immediate classic of Holocaust literature. Superbly researched and written, it is both a gripping story and deeply moving, I literally could not put it down
Immersive, shattering, and, ultimately redemptive . . . An epic of terror and endurance . . . Written with Freedland's page-turning, gripping, hard-edged immediacy, The Escape Artist is profound in thought, boundless in humanity, an immediate modern classic
Awe-inspiring, exciting and poignant, this is a thrilling read, a piece of redemptive storytelling and a work of important Holocaust historical research: Freedland has given Rudolf Vrba his rightful place in history - and in the process written a book that I couldn't put down
The Escape Artist is marvellous. It is original, meticulous and utterly compelling - and ultimately a deeply tragic tale
A must-read stand-out piece of history . . . This is Freedland at his finest . . . It is both a celebration of the extraordinary will, courage and resilience of the hero - Rudi Vrba - and an all too prescient warning of how hard it is to wake up the world to things it would prefer not to see
A work of the highest quality about an astonishing man. It is gripping from start to finish, searingly, shocking, revelatory and deeply moving - the more so because there is no false note, no striving for effect. The research is prodigious and the complexities deftly woven into the narrative . . . A profoundly troubling and important work
A masterpiece of page-turning history: an escape story that is also a fearless exploration of some of the most profound questions that face humanity. Rudolf Vrba's extraordinary testimony will deepen your understanding of the Holocaust - and compel you to think afresh about our own times, and the role of truth, denial and fragile memory. Magisterial
The story of Vrba's escape from Auschwitz, exquisitely told by Jonathan Freedland, soars like a thriller. Exhilarating, deeply moving and historically important
Powerful, important, compelling and superbly told. This is a book that needs to be read
An indispensable, unflinching, bone-hard book. Compelling reading
I read it with my heart beating fast, full of horror, rage, despair - and admiration for this potent demonstration of the stubborn resilience of the human spirit
Brilliant
Meticulously researched . . . shocking but thrilling, and ultimately overwhelmingly inspiring
Astonishing . . . An indispensable part of Holocaust history . . . Gripping
An utterly gripping narrative, incorporating a restrained though harrowing picture of life in Auschwitz and a kind of heroic adventure story
Such an important piece of history . . . This dramatic, compelling and deeply sensitive account raises issues around courage, agency and the credibility of facts that still resonate today
This really is an extraordinary book
Notă biografică
Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and former foreign correspondent. He was named Columnist of the Year in 2002, Commentator of the Year in 2016 and won an Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2014. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View, and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of 11 books, two of them non-fiction, including his first book, the award-winning Bring Home the Revolution. He has written nine thrillers under the name Sam Bourne, including The Righteous Men which was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.