A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation--and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners--tells the story of Wim and Marie, a dutch couple who first hid a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of this body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella was originally published in 1947 and is now translated into English for the first time.--from cover, p. [4].
"A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation--and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners--tells the story of Wim and Marie, a dutch couple who first hid a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of this body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella was originally published in 1947 and is now translated into English for the first time.--from cover, p. [4]."@en
"A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation -- and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners -- Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, and whose body they must then dispose of when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best: deeply ironic, penetrating, sympathetic, and brilliantly modern -- an heir to Joseph Roth and Franz Kafka. In 2008, when Keilson received Germany's prestigious Welt Litera."@en
"First work: Traces the struggles of a Dutch couple who shelter a Jewish man during the Nazi occupation and dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. Second work: Short autobiographical anecdotes of the author's first half of life: as a child in Brandenburg, as a student in Berlin, as a medical student in the Netherlands, in hiding and in contact with the resistance, and his marriage."
""קומדיה בסולם מינורי, שראה אור לראשונה ב-1947, הוא סיפורם של וים ומרי, זוג הולנדים שמסתירים בביתם את ניקו היהודי בזמן הכיבוש הגרמני. אלא שהיהודי מת מדלקת ריאות בביתם של בני הזוג. במובנים רבים, זהו דווקא סיפורם של המסתירים, ולא של היהודי הנרדף. ביצירת המופת של האנס קיילסון לא התנועות הגדולות של ההיסטוריה מתוארות כאן להפליא, אלא היום-יום במציאות שנטרפה, הדקויות והסתירות של החיים והמוות. עטו של קיילסון רווי חמלה ואירוניה, כאב והומור גם יחד ... לצד הרומן מובאת האוטוביוגרפיה "כאן ביתי", שנמצאה בין ניירותיו של הסופר בערוב ימיו ומתארת בישירות מפלחת לב את ילדותו ובגרותו כיהודי באירופה של אותן שנים."--מעטפת אחורית."
"Traces the struggles of a Dutch couple who shelter a Jewish man during the Nazi occupation and dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia."@en
"Traces the struggles of a Dutch couple who shelter a Jewish man during the Nazi occupation and dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia."
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