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The Memory Monster

Autor Yishai Sarid Traducere de Yardenne Greenspan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 sep 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022A HISTORY TODAY BEST HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present' The New York Times'Excels in its readiness to court controversy without surrendering nuance, and in place of moralising it offers questioning that's as necessary as it is unsettling.' ObserverWritten as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination, guiding tours through the death camps. The job becomes a mission, and then a dangerous obsession.With great perspicuity and the bitterest black humour, The Memory Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honour the suffering of our forebears without becoming consumed by it?
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ISBN-13: 9781632060600
ISBN-10: 1632060604
Pagini: 181
Dimensiuni: 126 x 179 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES
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Notă biografică

Yishai Sarid was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1965. He is the son of senior politician and journalist Yossi Sarid. Between 1974-1977, he lived with his family in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona, near the Lebanon border. Sarid was recruited to Israeli Army at 1983 and served for 5 years. During his service, he finished the IDF's officers school and served as an intelligence officer. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During 1994-1997, he worked for the Government as an Assistant District Attorney in Tel-Aviv, prosecuting criminal cases. Sarid has a Public Administration Master's Degree (MPA) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1999). Nowadays he is an active lawyer and arbitrator, practicing mainly civil and administrative law. His Law office is located in Tel-Aviv. Alongside his legal career, Sarid writes literature, and so far he has published five novels. Sarid is married to Dr. Racheli Sion-Sarid, a critical care pediatrician, and they have three children.

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A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present
A brilliant, challenging, and uncompromising novel
A bracing corrective to the recent literary fashion for Holocaust kitsch. It takes a fearless and astringent look at the use and abuse of Holocaust memory and emerges with answers every bit as challenging and uncomfortable as this topic demands
Sarid's incisive critique of Holocaust memorialization, the corruption within it, and the perverse forms of nationalism it can engender is courageous.... Anything but moralistic, it leaves the reader to draw their own conclusions about the complex politics of Holocaust memorialization and its many layers of irony ... Nuanced and subtle at every level
The short but powerful novel raises the question of how far we let the horrors of the past infiltrate our present-day lives.... The Memory Monster is not an easy book to read but its message is important to hear
While countless writers have asked the question of where, or if, humanity can be found within the profoundly inhumane, Sarid incisively shows how preoccupation and obsession with the inhumane can take a toll on one's own humanity... A bold, masterful exploration of the banality of evil and the nature of revenge, controversial no matter how it is read
Sarid boldly highlights the risks of "harnessing [ourselves] to the memory chariot" and of how remembrance can calcify our views, in this complex, rewarding story of a man brought low by good intentions
Taboo-breaking, anguished ... Sarid's irony-inflected narrative illuminates how the monstrous legacy of the Shoah can devour integrity, ethics and self-respect in individuals and nations alike
Intelligent and powerful... anything but complacent
A brave and brilliant short novel translated to great deadpan effect ... Sarid is an exciting writer ... The Memory Monster is clever, funny, disturbing and tragic
Unflinching ... a provocative exploration of Holocaust memory in a moment of generational shift