Badenheim 1939 (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aharon Appelfeld
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Parable
- Time of Work: 1939
- Setting: Badenheim, Austria
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Parable
- Subjects: 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, Austria or Austrians, Holocaust, Jewish, Totalitarianism, Persecution
- Locales: Badenheim, Austria
Characters Discussed
Dr. Pappenheim, a hotel “impresario” and director of the summer festival of performing arts at the Badenheim resort. Encouraging and accommodating, he works very hard at providing the hotel guests with the best entertainment. His attitude is quite positive, and when the Jews face deportation to Poland, he looks forward to a new and exciting life in a new land, feeling that no real life remains in Badenheim.
Trude, the pharmacist’s wife. She is a sickly woman who worries constantly that her son-in-law Leopold beats her daughter Helena. Haunted...
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