The Immortal Bartfuss (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Aharon Appelfeld
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: Primarily Israel, with flashbacks to Italy
- Principal Characters: Bartfuss, Rosa, Bridget, Schmugler, Theresa, Sylvia
- Genres: Long fiction, Allegory
- Subjects: 1970’s, Family or family life, Twentieth century, Guilt, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Jews or Jewish life, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel or Israelis, Isolation
- Locales: Italy, Israel
Aharon Appelfeld is a survivor of the Holocaust whose writing is stamped by a melancholy sense of the doom he managed to elude. Born in Chernovtsy, Bukovina (then Rumanian, now within the Soviet Union), he was eight when the invading Germans sent him to a labor camp in 1940. There both of his parents died, but the boy managed in 1941 to escape into the inhospitable countryside, working as a shepherd and farm helper for three years, hiding his identity from hunters of Jews. In 1944 he became a field cook for the Soviet army. After the armistice he made his way to Italy with a small tide...
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