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The Seventh Cross de Anna Seghers

The Seventh Cross: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Anna Seghers Traducere de Margot Bettauer Dembo Introducere de Rachel Seiffert Cuvânt după de Thomas von Steinaecker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2019

În Germania anului 1939, în perimetrul lagărului de concentrare Westhofen, timpul se măsoară în bătăile inimii unui fugar și în sunetul ciocanelor care ridică șapte cruci. Această alegere a cadrului nu este doar un decor istoric, ci o examinare viscerală a modului în care teroarea restructurează geografia morală a unei întregi națiuni. Descoperim aici un mecanism narativ de o tensiune remarcabilă: șapte oameni evadează, dar atenția se concentrează pe George Heisler, ultimul rămas în libertate, în timp ce tovarășii săi sunt rând pe rând prinși și aduși înapoi pentru a „ocupa” crucile pregătite de comandant.

Subliniem finețea cu care Anna Seghers construiește această panoramă socială. Nu este doar povestea unei urmăriri, ci un portret stratificat al trădării și al curajului cotidian. Considerăm că forța romanului rezidă în personajele secundare — fratele devenit ofițer SS sau iubita care îi întoarce spatele — ilustrând modul în care frica alterează cele mai intime legături umane. În contextul operei sale, dacă în Transit autoarea explora condiția suspendată a refugiatului, aici, în The Seventh Cross, ea analizează mecanica internă a rezistenței și a supraviețuirii într-un stat polițienesc.

Stilul este marcat de o claritate tăioasă, specifică prozei scrise în exil, unde fiecare cuvânt poartă greutatea unei mărturii urgente. Această ediție din seria Virago Modern Classics oferă traducerea integrală a textului, restabilind integritatea unei opere care a circulat decenii întregi în forme cenzurate sau fragmentate. Este o lectură de o densitate psihologică rară, care transformă o evadare fizică într-o interogație profundă despre solidaritatea umană în momente de întuneric absolut.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349010410
ISBN-10: 0349010412
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seria Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o perspectivă autentică asupra Germaniei prebelice, scrisă chiar în vâltoarea evenimentelor. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere nuanțată a psihologiei maselor și a curajului individual sub presiune. Este un document istoric esențial și un roman de suspans metafizic care demonstrează de ce Anna Seghers a fost o voce fundamentală a secolului XX.

Despre autor

Anna Seghers (1900-1983), pe numele real Netty Reiling, a fost una dintre cele mai influente figuri ale literaturii germane de exil. Născută într-o familie de evrei din Mainz și doctor în istoria artei, s-a refugiat din fața nazismului în Mexic, trecând prin Franța ocupată. Experiențele sale de disidență și exil sunt reflectate în opere majore precum The Seventh Cross și Transit. Recunoscută internațional pentru acuitatea observației sociale, Seghers a fost nominalizată la Premiul Nobel în 1967, rămânând un simbol al rezistenței intelectuale antifasciste.

Descriere

'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an important novel, but an important historical document. This new, unabridged translation is a genuine publishing event' - Joseph Kanon, author of 'The Good German' and 'Leaving Berlin'

'A masterpiece. Written in the midst of terror, but with such clarity, such acuity; Seghers is a writer of rare insight' RACHEL SEIFFERT author of A Boy in Winter

Seven prisoners escape from Westhofen concentration camp. Seven crosses are erected in the grounds and the commandant vows to capture the fugitives within a week. Six men are caught quickly, but George Heisler slips through his pursuers' fingers. It becomes a matter of pride to track him down, at whatever cost.

Who can George trust? Who will betray him? The years of fear have changed those he knew best: his brother is now an SS officer; his lover turns him away. Hunted, injured and desperate, time is running out for George, and whoever is caught aiding in his escape will pay with their life.

The Seventh Cross is one of the most powerful and influential novels of the twentieth century, a tense thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of Nazi Germany.

'It was [Seghers] who taught my generation and anyone who had an ear to listen after that not-to-be-forgotten war to distinguish right from wrong. The Seventh Cross shaped me; it sharpened my vision' GUNTER GRASS

'A fascinating insight into life in pre-war Nazi Germany just as the horrors of the Nazi regime were beginning to unfold. This is an important novel, as much for its picture of German society as for its insight into the psyche of ordinary people confronting their personal fears and mixed loyalties' SIMON MAWER, author of The Glass Room


In The Seventh Cross, Seghers's aim was to write, 'A tale that makes it possible to get to know the many layers of fascist Germany through the fortunes of a single man.' She had four copies of the manuscript: one was destroyed in an air raid; a friend lost the second copy while fleeing the Nazis; another was found by the Gestapo; only the fourth copy survived, which, fortunately, she sent to her publisher in America just before she escaped Nazi-occupied France. Published in 1942, The Seventh Cross was an immediate bestseller and was the basis for an MGM film starring Spencer Tracy in 1944. It has been translated into more than 40 languages.

Margot Bettauer Dembo's expert new translation makes the complete text of this great political novel available in English for the first time.

Recenzii

Simply put, a novel against dictatorship
The material that this book is made from is long-lasting and indestructible; very few things on earth can be compared to it. It is known as justice
It was [Seghers] who taught my generation and anyone who had an ear to listen after that not-to-be-forgotten war to distinguish right from wrong. The Seventh Cross shaped me; it sharpened my vision
At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an important novel, but an important historical document. This new, unabridged translation is a genuine publishing event.
A fascinating insight into life in pre-war Nazi Germany just as the horrors of the Nazi regime were beginning to unfold. This is an important novel, as much for its picture of German society as for its insight into the psyche of ordinary people confronting their personal fears and mixed loyalties while an escapee from an early concentration camp attempts to avoid recapture
A masterpiece. Written in the midst of terror, but with such clarity, such acuity; Seghers is a writer of rare insight
As a demonstration of what life under Nazism does to the mind and soul of many typical Germans, The Seventh Cross is a searching, brilliantly skilful job
The Seventh Cross is multi-layered, compelling and so human, wise and compassionate. We are taken inside different characters' heads to see the human side of monstrous people and the monster within the most humane. We see the poignancy of ordinariness in times of crisis and horror. Through the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary times we get to see how fascism can take hold and that is an important thing for us to grasp right now!
[The Seventh Cross] ranges over an array of characters and narrative strands to present a panoramic, yet fine-grained view of German society at a particular moment of the Nazi era . . . In the book's minor characters and subplots, Seghers shows the different ways Nazism ripples through people's lives. She powerfully conveys an atmosphere of paranoia and resignation, quiet resistance and flickering hope
INTRODUCED BY RACHEL SEIFFERT

'It was [Seghers] who taught my generation and anyone who had an ear to listen after that not-to-be-forgotten war to distinguish right from wrong. The Seventh Cross shaped me; it sharpened my vision' Gunter Grass

'A fascinating insight into life in pre-war Germany just as the horrors of the Nazi regime were beginning to unfold. An important novel' Simon Mawer


Seven prisoners escape from Westhofen concentration camp. The commandant vows to capture the fugitives within seven days. Six are quickly apprehended and brutally dealt with, but George Heisler slips through his pursuers' fingers. It becomes a matter of pride to track him down, at whatever cost.

Who can George trust? His brother is now an SS officer; his lover turns him away. Hunted, injured and desperate, time is running out, and anyone caught helping him will pay will their life.

First published in 1942, The Seventh Cross is one of the most powerful and influential novels of the twentieth century - a tense thriller that helped to alert the world to the terrifying realities of life in Nazi Germany.

TRANSLATED BY MARGOT BETTAUER BEMBO

Notă biografică

Anna Seghers (née Netty Reiling; 1900-1983) was born in Mainz, Germany, into an upper-middle-class Jewish family. She was a sickly and introverted child by her own account, but became an intellectually curious student, eventually earning a doctorate in art history at the University of Heidelberg in 1924; her first story, written under the name Antje Seghers, was published in the same year. In 1925 she married a Hungarian immigrant economist and began her writing career in earnest. By 1929 Seghers had joined the Communist Party, given birth to her first child, and received the Kleist Prize for her first novel, The Revolt of the Fishermen. Having settled in France in 1933, Seghers was forced to flee again after the 1940 Nazi invasion. With the aid of Varian Fry, Seghers, her husband, and two children sailed from Marseille to Mexico on a ship that included among its passengers Victor Serge, André Breton, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. After the war she moved to East Berlin, where she became an emblematic figure of East German letters, actively championing the work of younger writers from her position as president of the Writers Union and publishing at a steady pace. Among Seghers's internationally regarded works are Transit (1944, available as an NYRB Classic), the novella Excursion of the Dead Girls (1945), The Dead Stay Young (1949), and the story collection Benito's Blue (1973). Margot Bettauer Dembo (1928-2019) was the translator of works by Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhardt, Joachim Fest, Ödön von Horváth, and Feridun Zaimoglu, among others. She was awarded the Goethe-Institut/Berlin Translator's Prize in 1994 and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2003. Dembo also worked as a translator for two feature documentary films: The Restless Conscience, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and The Burning Wall. For NYRB Classics she translated Transit and The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers and Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum. Thomas Von Steinaecker was born in Germany in 1977. A novelist and journalist, he has also written extensively for radio and is the creator of several documentaries, including Richard Strauss and His Heroines. Two of his novels, Wallner beginnt zu Fliegen (2007) and Die Verteidigung des Paradieses (2016), have been nominated for the German Book Prize.