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Panorama

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Publication Date: 15/02/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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Published for the first time in English, Panorama is a superb rediscovered novel of the Holocaust by a neglected modern master. One of a handful of death camp survivors to fictionalize his experiences in German, H. G. Adler is an essential author--referenced by W. G. Sebald in his classic novel "Austerlitz," and a direct literary descendant of Kafka. When "The Journey" was discovered in a Harvard bookshop and translated by Peter Filkins, it began a major reassessment of the Prague-born H. G. Adler by literary critics and historians alike. Known for his monumental "Theresienstadt 1941-1945," a day-by-day account of his experiences in the Nazi slave-labor community before he was sent to Auschwitz, Adler also wrote six novels. The very depiction of the Holocaust in fiction caused furious debate and delays in their publication. Now "Panorama," his first novel, written in 1948, is finally available to convey the kinds of truths that only fiction can.

Praise for H. G. Adler's "The Journey, " translated by Peter Filkins
"The novel's streaming consciousness and verbal play invite comparison with Joyce, the individual-dwarfing scale of law and prohibition brings Kafka to mind, and there is something in the hypnotic pulse of the prose that is reminiscent of Gertrude Stein."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"As important a find as Irene Nemirovsky's" Suite Francaise, " and as well translated into English, it is indeed, as Veza Canetti wrote to the author in 1962, '"too beautiful" for words and too sad.' "--Sander L. Gilman, author of" Jurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds
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"A tribute to the survival of art and a poignant teaching in the art of survival. I tend to shy away from Holocaust fiction, but this book helps redeem an all-but-impossible genre."--Harold Bloom
"A masterpiece of modern fiction."--"The Times Literary Supplement"
"[Adler] produced a quantity and a diversity of writings about the Ho

Title: Panorama
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Contributors: By (author) H.G. Adler ; Translated by Peter Filkins

ISBN 13: 9780812980608
ISBN 10: 0812980603

Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Publication Date: 15/02/2012
Place of Publication: New York, United States
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BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 833.914 (DC21)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Height: 201mm
Width: 132mm
Thickness: 28mm
Weight: 367g