Word: schwarz-bart
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DIED. Andre Schwarz-Bart, 78, French author; in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. His greatest work, The Last of the Just, traced one Jewish family's history from the Crusades to the death camps at Auschwitz. The novel-inspired by the murder of Schwarz-Bart's entire Polish-Jewish family by the Nazis-swas awarded France's highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt...
...Jewish people." If Wiesel's literary career had ended with Night, he would still have earned an international reputation as a founder of Holocaust literature. Once the novel was published, others dared to speak out: Nelly Sachs' laments were carried in O the Chimneys; André Schwarz-Bart chronicled The Last of the Just; Jerzy Kosinski described The Painted Bird. Wiesel himself was set free; his other books rushed into print: Dawn, The Accident, The Town Beyond the Wall, The Gates of the Forest, A Beggar in Jerusalem...
...Proxima Centauri, as it was about four years ago; and some of the farther galaxies as they looked billions of years ago. Peering into the heavens then is like looking back into time, and some of the stars that astronomers see may no longer exist. Truly, as André Schwarz-Bart wrote in The Last of the Just: "Our eyes register the light of dead stars...
...ALTHOUGH Schwarz-Bart is dealing with an epic subject at minimal length, telescoping action and using primitively direct means to etch his characters, he nowhere descends to type. The various slaves and Frenchmen are distinct individuals as well as symbols; a major reason for the purity of Solitude's anger is her heritage, developed beyond that of most other slaves. The fantasies of slave-owners are indictment enough without the glaze of the author's own rancor, and one of the oppressors is almost sympathetic, with strong psychological motivations for his actions as a slave-owner (his father had been...
...Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart's fictional history of Jewish martyrdom, ended poignantly with a lament for the destruction of such communities as the Hasidic shtetls of eastern Europe -- where social rules were joyously, religiously infused with a belief that beneath the moral law lay some ineffable grace. That novel was a sad and bitter tribute to Messianic faith, and its tone was mourning. A Woman Named Solitude is dedicated to fighters, like those people who revolted in the Warsaw ghetto; fighters whose ghosts, we are told, still rise up before the eyes of travelers amidst the ruins...