Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Georg Laschen (Bruno Ganz) shares the moral dilemma of all journalists: how can one remain a bystander, a mere observer of violence and injustice? He has urges to get involved, to "do something" about the war he is recording. But his self-preoccupation prevents any political action. His journey to Lebanon began as an escape from a difficult marriage, and the country remains a kind of exotic, horrific Disneyland in which he attempts to lose himself...
...Tomaso. At 30, he opened his own firm. Married, the father of two children, Giugiaro resides in a rambling ranch-style house outside Turin that he planned with an architect. The interior is decorated with Oriental art and Giugiaro's own paintings. The designer he admires most is Bruno Sacco, who styles the Mercedes. Says Giugiaro: "Sacco's work shows it is possible to renovate an object in which the models may appear to be the same, but are actually improving from generation to generation...
...novel to be translated into English, Israeli Author Aharon Appelfeld, 49, portrays the arrival of the great evil that became the Holocaust as a series of incremental tremors. Anti-Semitism first manifests itself as that petty annoyance on the train, "bureaucracy gone mad" as one passenger reassures another. Then Bruno's elaborate twelfth birthday party is sobered by the arrival of an actress-relative who has been fired by the National Theater because she is Jewish. The shy young guest of honor watches the adults argue over whether there is truly cause for worry: "Words I did not understand...
...father, a famous Austrian writer and intellectual whose once lofty reputation inexorably declines, mirroring the growing dangers to all Jews in the country. A series of articles in a provincial paper attack his novels, calling his characters "parasites living off the healthy Austrian tradition, not their own marrow." Bruno remembers: "We couldn't even argue that the articles were written by an anti-Semite. The critic, as his name showed, was a Jew." The maligned author grows ever more frantic and tries to become more Austrian than his growing band of tormentors: "Jewish entrepreneurs should be wiped...
This first section of The Age of Wonders is a stunning novella, an elegiac distillation of incomprehension and loss. But Appelfeld then brings Bruno back, some 25 years later, to the same Austrian town. There has been a revival of interest in his father's writings, and the son is invited from Israel to assist in the arrangements for the new edition. This shorter episode raises questions that are not answered, including the fate of Bruno's parents and the means by which he escaped his own destiny on the cattle train. Also, the understandable passivity that Bruno...