The House of Remembering and Forgetting
Published on 10. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-912545-42-1 (ISBN)
Description
Albert Weisz disappears in his early childhood. To save the young boy from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, his father makes a hole in the floor of the cattle truck taking his and other Jewish families to their deaths. He then pushes Albert s brother Elijah and then Albert through and down on to the tracks, hoping that someone will find and take pity on the two boys in the white winter night.
In an attempt to understand the true nature of evil, David shows us that it is necessary to walk in two worlds: the material one in which evil occurs and the alternative world of dreams, premonitions and visions in which we try to come to terms with the dangers around us. With its intricate plot and interweaving of fact and fiction, The House of Remembering and Forgetting grapples with the paradoxical and painful dilemma of whether to choose to remember or to forget.
In an attempt to understand the true nature of evil, David shows us that it is necessary to walk in two worlds: the material one in which evil occurs and the alternative world of dreams, premonitions and visions in which we try to come to terms with the dangers around us. With its intricate plot and interweaving of fact and fiction, The House of Remembering and Forgetting grapples with the paradoxical and painful dilemma of whether to choose to remember or to forget.
Reviews / Votes
'While warning us of the consequences of the choice between what to remember and what to forget, David suggests a new dialogue between memory and forgetfulness, a need for a new language for understanding evil.' --World Literature Today'A mix of semi-fictional autobiography and a collective biography of European Jews in the twentieth century ... a universal tale of the human survival instinct in the face of evil and the need to make sense of it all.' --Dejan Djokic
'He [Filip David] has written a masterly book. It meshes a rigorous intelligence, all the more effective for being acutely understated, with an eerie exploration of the many corridors and labyrinths of many criss-crossing worlds.' --Jewish Chronicle
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-912545-42-1 (9781912545421)
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Previous edition
Filip David
The House of Remembering and Forgetting
Book
09/2017
Peter Owen Publishers
€14.50
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Persons
Filip David is a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, short stories and novels. David was born in 1940 in Kragujevac to a Jewish family. Members of his family were some of the victims of the 1941 Kragujevac massacre committed by occupation forces during the World War II in Yugoslavia.He graduated from both the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and the Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television of the Belgrade University of Arts.He was a long-time editor of the drama program of the Radio Television of Belgrade. In 1989, he was one of the founders of the "Independent Writers" society in Sarajevo, in then-SFR Yugoslavia. He was also the founder of the literary society "Belgrade Circle" in 1990. This society opposed the then-ruling government of Slobodan Milosevic.In 2015, he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel "Kuca secanja i zaborava" (The House of Remembering and Forgetting).