Garden, Ashes

In Yugoslavia during the Second World War, young Andi Scham and his beleaguered family are constantly moving, searching for refuge Yet the physical hardships of the world do not intrude on Andi s adolescent world of vivid observation and imaginative withdrawals From his memories emerges the wondrous story of his father, Eduard Scham the Wandering Jew, Don Quixote, red eyed, crazed, drunk, bellicose, a man who recedes from life and then disappears in the Holocaust.Andi s search for his father is a poetic, lyrical remembrance of things past The celebrated Serbian writer Danilo Kis has blended bits of realism, snatches of dreams, and echoes of his own consciousness as a child to shape this magical and memorable novel. Best Read [ Garden, Ashes ] author [ Danilo Kiš ] – kino-fada.fr I don t know if I am totally comfortable with liking a book such as Garden, Ashes as much as I do The historical facts behind it s necessity of being are too terrible, and it brings up the question, at least in my mind, as to why I enjoy these particular types of books so much The type of books I mean are early to mid twentieth century literary memoirs from Eastern Europe and Russia and if they are memoirs of a childhood, or a gulag, or the front, it is all thestrangely alluring, and I I don t know if I am totally comfortable with liking a book such as Garden, Ashes as much as I do The historical facts behind it s necessity of being are too terrible, and it brings up the question, at least in my mind, as to why I enjoy these particular types of books so much The type of books I mean are early to mid twentieth century literary memoirs from Eastern Europe and Russia and if they are memoirs of a childhood, or a gulag, or the front, it is all thestrangely alluring, and I m not sure if the reasons behind my fascination with this genre are pure But is enjoy even the right word to use here Maybe it slike I am comforted by them but how does a deluge bring about comfort , or that they give me ... There are spoilers endemic to what follows. How would a child have dealt with the horror of something as regimentally and encompassingly evil as the Holocaust We are all armed, to some degree, with an imagination that can help us deflect, ignore, transform, subsume select trials and tribulations within immiserating life but the Shoah is an atrocity at an entirely overwhelming level so that Andreas Scham, the child s narrative voice relating the events of Garden, Ashes, manages to not only enf There are spoilers endemic to what follows. How would a child have dealt with the horror of something as regimentally and encompassingly evil as the Holocaust We are all armed, to some degree, with an imagination that can help us deflect, ignore, transform, subsume select trials and tribulations within immiserating life but the Shoah is an atrocity at an entirely overwhelming level so that Andreas Scham, the child s narrative voice relating the events of Garden, Ashes, manages to not only enflesh his own tale within the candied concoctions and selenian spells dispensed from his inventive fount, but, in parallel, that of the mythological meandering of historic time and prophetic passage of Old Testament Blues makes for something truly special Being born of a Jewish father, the raggedly brilliant and eclectic Eduard Scham, means that his male parent will fall under the classification consigning one to the hell of the Nazi death ca...Semi autobiographical memoir tremolo ed with essay, lithograph, phantasmagoria and confessional to name but a few a medley of style and temporal, reads like a collection of self contained story pieces loosely threaded together.Kis was Yugoslavian, or, to be evenimprecise, half Austro Hungarian Jew and half Montenegrin Christian Finding this out helps contextualise the dichotomy of constantly referring to his father as the Wandering Jew whilst indulging in protracted biblical escapism gr Semi autobiographical memoir tremolo ed with essay, lithograph, phantasmagoria and confessional to name but a few a medley of style and temporal, reads like a collection of self contained story pieces loosely threaded together.Kis was Yugoslavian, or, to be evenimprecise, half Austro Hungarian Jew and half Montenegrin Christian Finding this out helps contextualise the dichotomy of consta... The realization that I was able to control my dreams, channel them in a particular direction by my choice of reading matter or by thinking certain thoughts before going to sleep, resulted in an explosion of my darkest impulses In fact, I was living two lives not a trace of bookishness in that , one in reality and the other in my dreams, which produced in me an extraordinary and sinful joy.I am dreaming this I am dreaming this I want this I loved Garden, Ashes and I am on my third reading I The realization that I was able to control my dreams, channel them in a particular direction by my choice of reading matter or by thinking certain thoughts before going to sleep, resulted in an explosion of my darkest impulses In fact, I was living two lives not a trace of bookishness in that , one in reality and the other in my dreams, which produced in me an extraordinary and sinful joy.I am dreaming this I ...Fragmenti se anja koji su mu ili Danila Ki a tako bih ukratko opisao ovu knjigu.Ovaj bildungsroman je drugi deo trilogije Porodi ni ciklus kojim autor sprovodi potragu za sopstvenim identitetom u mra nim hodnicima memorije Op injenost smr u i ve no u protagoniste Andreas Sama daju knjizi posebnu, somnambulnu atmosferu, negde izme u jave i sna.Figura Eduarda oca protagoniste dominira celom knjigom kao lajt motiv, kao elja da ga ne zaboravi, i zapamti i romantizuje Od blatnjave odiseje preko Fragmenti se anja koji su mu ili Danila Ki a tako bih ukratko opisao ovu knjigu.Ovaj bildungsroman je drugi deo trilogije Porodi ni ciklus kojim autor sprovodi potragu za sopstvenim identitetom u mra nim hodnicima memorije Op injenost smr u i ve no u protagoniste Andreas Sama daju knjizi posebnu, somnambulnu atmosferu, negde izme u jave i sna.Figura Eduarda oca protagoniste dominira celom knjigom kao lajt motiv, kao elja da ga ne zaboravi, i zapamti i romantizuje Od blatnjave odiseje preko voj...I ve read it at least four times, once aloud while the passenger in a car from NYC to Iowa Easily the finest semi erotic epileptic fit ever Like Bruno Schulzthan anyone else nothing like Marquez, per a review on here , but maybe a bit better than Schulz since it s written well after WWII but is se...Iako se itanje ove knjige igrom ivotnih situacija odu ilo na veoma dug period, nikako nisam mogao da se oslobodim utiska detinje spokojnosti svaki put kada bih je uzeo u ruke Vrlo esto eleo sam da se zatvorim izme u korica ove savr ene pri e Ba ta pepo je defitivno crno beli film, sa hrapavim naratorskim glasom, onakvim kakav je i sam Ki imao Pregr t bolnih, jasnih, udnih i ma tovitih se anja, koja kao da su napisana iz jednog daha, rukom jednog jednog dvadesetogodi njaga u ijim grudim Iako se itanje ove knjige igrom ivotnih situacija odu ilo na veoma dug period, nikako nisam mogao da se oslobodim utiska detinje spokojnosti... Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only f...A 4.5, I think if only to differentiate it from A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, which I liked slightlya view which I recognize is in the minority on this site, as well as with the general literary scene, and therefore requires a bit of explanation On the level of prose, Garden, Ashes is never anything less than exemplary Sentences often begin in a tersely descriptive mode, focused on one orobjects that are rendered in sharply physical terms a Singer sewing machine, for example, A 4.5, I think if only to differentiate it from A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, which I liked slightlya view which I recognize is in the minority on this site, as well as with the general literary scene, and therefore requires a bit of explanation On the level of prose, Garden, Ashes is never anything less than exemplary Sentences often begin in a tersely descriptive mode, focused on one orobjects that are rendered in sharply physical terms a Singer sewing machine, for example, is described so lovingly that the reader feels as if they re running their fingers over every tiny part only to have the sentence continue unspooling, past the physical and into metaphorical or even metaphysical terrain this technique broadens the family story at the heart of the novel, allowing it to connect with a larger spiritual historical tradition mysticism, the end of Pan Europeanism and the shadow of the oncoming Holocaust without sacrificing any of its sometimes...One of Ki early novels and one of his most autobiographical, much is made of this in the introduction end elsewhere about the position of this book in relation to the Holocaust Well, sure, it takes place against the backdrop of the Holocaust, but the Holocaust is sort of a murky endgame lurking around in the background The best way I could describe this novel, told from the point of view of little Andi Scham, would be to compare to another tale of well meaning if insipd quixotic fathers, N One of Ki early novels and one of his most autobiographical, much is made of this in the introduction end elsewhere about the position of this book in relation to the Holocaust Well, sure, it takes plac...

• English
• 11 October 2018
Danilo Kiš
• Paperback
• 170 pages
• 156478326X
• Danilo Kiš
• Garden, Ashes