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seasarahread's review against another edition
5.0
An assigned college book that I've kept for almost 20 years. Minimizing my collection and letting go of it, not because it wasn't good but because I'm making peace with reality: I'd rather read new things than reread "old" favorites.
beepbeepbooks's review against another edition
3.0
This book doesn't forgive, and attempts to not forget either. Yet as the horrifying details of a WWII childhood as a Jew unfold, the lack of emotion or sentiment seems sometimes too cold, too sparse with reflection and perhaps too determined in objectivity. Kofman's first auto-biographical piece seems lacking one of her selves; the reflexive one that finds meaning out of the events of life.
Although this may be the point. Perhaps the instinct or desire to interpret, to find the right, to sniff out the wrong, these are the instincts that directly lead to her destitute childhood. One thing that the translator said about this book was that Kofman had an overwhelming urge that she "must speak the unspeakable". And this book shows the difficulty of this, the impossibility of having a universal truth. This is Kofman's truth. And the choice is set to accept or reject it.
Although this may be the point. Perhaps the instinct or desire to interpret, to find the right, to sniff out the wrong, these are the instincts that directly lead to her destitute childhood. One thing that the translator said about this book was that Kofman had an overwhelming urge that she "must speak the unspeakable". And this book shows the difficulty of this, the impossibility of having a universal truth. This is Kofman's truth. And the choice is set to accept or reject it.
meg_r24's review against another edition
3.0
Hm. Interesting. I found it easy to read, but not comfortable.Â
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