- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: GROVE/ATLANTIC (April 27 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0802136893
- ISBN-13: 978-0802136893
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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#196,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #16 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Jewish
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"* 'Yoram Kaniuk is one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World.' The New York Times * 'Of the novelists I have discovered in translation... the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Peter Handke, and Yoram Kaniuk.' Susan Sontag * 'Whether it is due to the originality of his broken style, or the sensitivity of his characters - the men and women imprisoned by their angels and demons - or his implacable lucidity, Kaniuk must be considered one of the great writers of our time.' Le Monde"
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The crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters, Adam Resurrected remains one of the most powerful works of Holocaust fiction ever written. A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam Stein is now the ringleader at an asylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holocaust survivors. Alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients, Adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been irreversibly blurred. With the biting irony of Catch-22, the intellectual vigor of Saul Bellow, and the pathos and humanity that are Kaniuk's hallmarks, Adam Resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption.
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An Essential Reissue,
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This review is from: Adam Resurrected: A Novel (Paperback)
After a shocking hiatus in which one of the great masterpieces of Holocaust literature -- indeed, literature in general -- has been out of print and unavailable in the United States, Adam Resurrected is finally back. We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Grove Press, the publisher, who have also just published in hardcover the author's first foray into nonfiction, a passionate and powerful biography of the man responsible for illegally bringing thousands of immigrants to Palestine during the British Mandate. But the point of this review is simply to encourage as many people who have not discovered Kaniuk's voice to pick up a copy of Adam -- in its most attractive packaging yet, I would add. It's a harrowing, gripping, astonishing, amazing piece of fiction, and one that approached the Holocaust with dark, ironic, biting humor decades before this became "fashionable." Read it -- you'll never forget it.
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A Stunning Portrayal of A Man's Salvation,
By Michael A. Sommer - Published on Amazon.com
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The story of Adam takes you from post WW II germany to the land of Israel in a flash back & present telling tale of one man's journey back from the brink of self-destruction. A Famous Eurpean Clown forced to be a dog during the Holocaust, living by wit & his Commander's wims & then having to keep his commander alive after the war ended. Adam finds himself returning to Institution life, too smart to be cured and too scared to stay in the outside world. Adam terrorizes the staff, tantalizes his lover (the head Nurse) and mesmorizes all the other patients with his charm and wit. Adam finally begins to heal as he attempts to heal a young boy who thinks he's a dog.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Disturbing and brilliant,
By Bookworm - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Adam Resurrected: A Novel (Paperback)
I read the book in Hebrew. Some of the details might have gone lost because I'm not fluent in Hebrew but I couldn't put down the book. I got sucked into it. It is one of the most disturbing stories I have ever read. It is a Holocaust story telling the story of Adam who lives in a psychiatric facility in Israel and who at times thinks he is a dog because of his experiences in a German concentration camp. The borders between who is mentally ill and who isn't are constantly blurred and so are the differentiations of what are hallucinations and what is actually "true". Great book!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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An absolute classic.,
By P. N. Kaili "Crazy Fyshe" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Adam Resurrected: A Novel (Paperback)
I've never been as moved emotionally while reading, as I have with this book. My only regret is that I did not know of this novel until recently.It is one of the best written, ever. I will treasure owning it, and intend to read it again, and again.It is a thorough delving into the aftermath of the Jewish holocaust, and the torturous insanity suffered by so many of the survivors.I have found reason to weep through many of the chapters. It is a good thing to feel this.Yoram Kaniuk has my undying respect.
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