Badenheim 1939 (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Aharon Appelfeld
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Parable
- Time of Work: 1939
- Setting: Badenheim, Austria
- Principal Characters: Dr. Pappenheim, Martin, Trude, Frau Zauberblit, Leon Samitzky, Peter, Mandelbaum, Sally, Gertie
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Parable
- Subjects: 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, Austria or Austrians, Holocaust, Jewish, Totalitarianism, Persecution
- Locales: Badenheim, Austria
The Story:
In early spring, the impresario Dr. Pappenheim returned to the Austrian resort town of Badenheim. As usual, he worried whether the performers, especially Mandelbaum, would appear as they had promised, and whether the festival would be successful. Soon, guests began to arrive. To Trude, the pharmacist’s wife, they looked pale, like patients in a sanatorium. To her, everything looked “poisoned and diseased.”
The next day, a sanitation department inspector visited the pharmacy. Although Martin, the pharmacist, did not know why the inspector was there, he...
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