
The Shop on Main Street
Ladislav Grosman(Author)
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic (Publisher)
Published on 6. December 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-80-246-4022-8 (ISBN)
Description
Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, The Shop on Main Street is the story that inspired the highly successful Academy Award-winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking at the Holocaust through the eyes of a complicit individual, the narrative follows a good-natured carpenter living in a Slovak town in 1942 who unwittingly becomes a participant in a moral crisis involving the abuse and persecution of Jews. Describing the film adaptation of Ladislav Grosman's novel, the New York Times declared that it is a "human drama that is a moving manifest of the dark dilemma that confronted all people who were caught as witnesses to Hitler's terrible crime." The review continues: "'Is one his brother's keeper?' is the thundering question the situation asks, and then, 'Are not all men brothers?' The answer given is a grim acknowledgement. But the unfolding of the drama is simple, done in casual, homely, humorous terms-until the terrible, heartbreaking resolution of the issue at the end."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ovocny
Czech Republic
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
177 gr
ISBN-13
978-80-246-4022-8 (9788024640228)
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Grosman Ladislav Grosman
Shop on Main Street
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10/2019
Karolinum Press
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Grosman Ladislav Grosman
Shop on Main Street
E-Book
10/2019
Karolinum Press
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Persons
Ladislav Grosman (1921-1981) was a Slovak Jewish novelist and screenwriter. During World War II he was sent to a forced labor camp and much of his family perished. After the war he studied in Prague and worked as an editor and lecturer. He adapted his own prose into the Academy Award-winning film The Shop on Main Street (1965) and later worked at Barrandov Film Studio. Following his emigration to Israel in 1968, he taught Slavic literature and creative writing in Tel Aviv.