The Age of Wonders (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aharon Appelfeld
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social morality
- Time of Work: 1938-1969
- Setting: Provincial Austria
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Self-discovery, Traveling or travelers, 1940’s, 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Trains, Austria or Austrians, Persecution
- Locales: Austria
Characters Discussed
Bruno A., called the Son, who in 1938 is a twelve-year-old schoolboy. He looks on helplessly and with only partial comprehension as his family and their comfortable existence fall to pieces in a world of jarring anti-Semitism. Aching for love and warmth from his estranged parents, the boy has intimations of decay and doom that intensify as he is shunted from provincial home to country resort and back again. In the second part of the novel, he is a middle- aged man. He returns to confront childhood ghosts after the breakup of his marriage in Jerusalem.
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