A Life in Pieces (Magill’s Literary Annual 2003)
At a glance:
- Author: Blake Eskin
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Biography, history, and memoir
- Time of Work: 1941-2000
- Setting: Israel, Los Angeles, Latvia, New York, Poland, Prague, and Switzerland
- Principal Characters: Binjamin Wilkomirski, Blake Eskin, Eden Force Eskin, Daniel Ganzfried, Verena Piller, Elitsur Bernstein, Lea Balint, Raul Hilberg, Sarah Moskovitz, Lauren Grabowski, Harvey Peskin, Rudolph Zehnder
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Twentieth century, Literature, World War II, Ethnic groups, Victims, Jews or Jewish life, War, Ethics, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Fraud, Concentration camps, Survival
- Locales: New York, Los Angeles, CA, Israel, Switzerland, Poland, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Latvia
The Polish artist and writer Bruno Schulz, who was shot and killed by a Gestapo officer in the Polish ghetto of Drohobycz in 1942, once worried about what should be done about events that have no place of their own in historical time, and he wrote that time might be “too narrow for all events.” Furthermore, he believed that when “one is burdened with a contraband of supernumerary events that cannot be registered, one cannot be too fussy”—they can simply be placed into one of time’s many parallel branching streams. However, as Blake Eskin’s book more than amply...
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