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- A Valuable Addition to Holocaust Literature
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- El delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido
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Liquidation
Imre Kertesz
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Release Date: 2005-10-25 |
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Imre Kert?sz’s savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.
Ten years after the fall of communism, a writer named B. commits suicide, devastating his circle and deeply puzzling his friend Kingsbitter. For among B.’s effects, Kingsbitter finds a play that eerily predicts events after his death. Why did B.–who was born at Auschwitz and miraculously survived–take his life? As Kingsbitter searches for the answer –and for the novel he is convinced lies hidden among his friend’s papers–Liquidation becomes an inquest into the deeply compromised inner life of a generation. The result is moving, revelatory and haunting.
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A Valuable Addition to Holocaust Literature.......2006-04-14
This is the third book by Kertesz that I have read. "Fateless" was the best but "Kaddish to a Child not Born" was pretty good after I got used to the non-stop monologue format. "Liquidation" has a lot to offer as well but, frankly, I found the format a bit incoherant.
The novella is about an Aushwitz survivor who took his life. We see most things through the eyes of our narrator, another concentration-camp survivor. The deceased was a writer and the narrator is a literary person as well. The narrator becomes obsessed with the notion that an author would not take his life without completing his opus first. Thus he examines the available writings he can find and pursues his search for the elusive novel. It is in this context that the truth reveals itself. Truth is hard to find if life seems to be a lie. That is, essentially, the focus of the message in "Liquidation". Since the message builds on itself much better than I can do it justice, I will not attempt to further define what our narrator discovers. However, I will say that my observation of Holocaust literature is that those that try to define what happened and give it meaning generally reach the same end. The Holocaust defies definition because we look to define in relation to our concepts of reality. What the literary Holocaust survivor shares with us, often, is a glimpse of a totally different reality but their ability to explain generally exceeds our ability to comprehend. In "Liquidation" Kertesz expands his message by giving us a debate about that reality through the perspectives of seperate Holocaust survivors. The debate enhances our efforts to understand but leaves us wondering if we have heard the conclusion or the introduction.
The world is a comedy to those that think.......2005-05-14
. . . a tragedy to those who feel. Horace Walpole.
Liquidation is the fourth in a series of books by Imre Kertesz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2002. Three, "Fateless", "Kaddish for a Child not Born", and "Liquidation" have been published in English. The fourth, "Fiasco" awaits translation. Although each is related to the other, the recurring characters and their life's story tends to change, the common thread in all is that monstrous thing known as Auschwitz. Kertesz himself is an Auschwitz survivor, and all his books have put Auschwitz, something that defies explanations or answers, on center stage.
Liquidation contains a story within a story. The protagonist, the aptly named Kingbitter, is a book editor in Budapest. It is the turn of the new century, 2000, and company that employs him is in serious economic trouble. The book opens with Kingbitter and his small circle of `friends' discussing "B". "B", an author, committed suicide in 1990 by means of an overdose of morphine, the morphine provided by his ex-wife. The friends are discussing "B" last known work, a play entitled "Liquidation". Oddly enough, the play, which discusses Kingbitter and that circle of friends, has foretold their personal course of events in the ten years since his suicide. Additionally, references in the play to a book supposedly written by "B" have caused Kingbitter to spend ten years in search of the manuscript. The manuscript is never found and doubts arise as to whether it ever existed.
Although Kingbitter is the principal `living' person in the book, the story does focus on "B" and his life and death. "B" was one of those few children born at Auschwitz. The story of his birth and survival is one of life's small miracles, a small drop of water in a sea of evil and death. As the story progresses, and as the play within the play progresses, Kertesz exposes us to "B", his ex-wife, his mistress, and Kingbitter and company. Each has their own take on "B's" life and each provides the reader with some insight into "B"s life. As one friend notes, "B" once said that "Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate." Taking the quote from Walpole, above, as a reference, it is clear that "B" is one given to thought and not to feeling. In fact, I had the distinct imperssioin that feeling was an emotion that "B" avoided, perhaps understandably, at all costs. Ultimately, as with his other books, neither Kertesz nor his characters can answer the question that is Auschwitz and the meaning of survival. For "B", his survival has rendered him fateless as the fact of his surviving deprived fate of an intended victim.
Kertesz' writing is sparse and to the point. He does not provide the reader with emotional content. He provides text and a description of his characters, their actions, and their thoughts. As was the case in Fateless, any emotions to be gained from reading Liquidation will come from your own sense of the text. Kertesz does not provide you with an emotional road map.
Although Liquidation is one of a series, each book stands on its own and may be enjoyed on its own merits. However, for anyone interested in reading Kertesz, I suggest they start with Fateless. Although Kaddish comes next chronologically, I suggest reading Liquidation next. The only reason for this order is the assertion by some devotees of Kertesz that the book "Kaddish for a Child not Born" may represent the manuscript not found by Kingbitter in Liquidation. That may or may not be the case but it may enhance the reader's enjoyment if it is viewed as the lost manuscript of "B". The reader should also be aware that although each book is related to the other and there is an overlap in characters at times, this is not a trilogy. Kertesz shifts the story line around quite a bit. The Auschwitz survivor in Fateless, for example, was taken to the camps as a teenager, unlike "B" who was born there. The stories are connected by theme, not by plot line.
Bitter prose...........2005-04-08
Kertesz writes same old book over and over again, from Fateless to Liquidation. And yet, we cannot get enough of it. Questions posed in those books poke at the mind with such fiercness that sheer struggle remains to hold on to ones sanity. It is the question of existance, of possibility of existance. And of the world that made that question possible.
How can one live a life where even his birth was an anomaly, something that never should have happened, luck, coincidence, life in the camp of death where Arbeit mach frei...Can he exist as a writer, and is his personal legacy in a from of literature strong enough to revoke effects of concentrational camps. Kertesz say "no", and leaves an emptiness for every reader to fill out himself. Love and sex, marriage and relationships hold no meaning in Kertesz's world of pain, world of morbid and twisted humanity which is, sadly, world that we live in.
What is a Jew, and what is the meaning of being Jew? Questions posed in a postmodern (yeay! everything is postmodern nowadays) way of author who had written a play that speaks of character of an author reading it...Yet, that is just a style practice...Final part of Kertesz's tetralogy doesen't close this chapter at all, it just prolongs a moment of necessary answer...A must read!
El delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido.......2004-12-31
In this novel, the central character answers the same crucial question posed in 'Kaddish for a child not born': why staying alive after Auschwitz?'
In 'Kaddish' the author decided to live in order to write: 'My pencil is my shovel'. The real rebellion for him was to stay alive.
The central character here commits suicide and orders that his literary creations be burned. The liquidation is complete.
'Why he did it?' is the question that the narrator of this book tries to find out.
The novel is an accumulation of liquidations. The narrator's family was a product of wars and dictatorships. After fascism and Auschwitz, as a lector in a publishing house he gets in trouble with the collectivist bureaucracy, where 'state subsidies are a disguised form of liquidation of literature'. Finally, his publishing house goes bankrupt.
The overall sentiment in 'Liquidation' is one of bitterness and nausea provoked by the poison of universal impotence.
Although the combination theatre/novel is highly original, I found that this book was more loosely built than 'Kaddish'.
But it is still a very worth-while read.
Is one allowed to live after Auschwitz?.......2004-12-08
The Hungarian writer B. commits suicide after the fall of communism. His editor, Keserü, tries to find out why he killed himself, for which he needs to trace the whereabouts of a manuscript by B. Meanwhile it becomes more and more clear that B. is a victim of Auschwitz: he was born in Auschwitz and the rest of his life is devoted to the question whether a man is alllowed to live after surviving Auschwitz. And in the background there is the play in which B. has described very precisely how the people near him will react after his death.
The title of the book "Liquidation" is very appropriately chosen: Auschwitz killed millions of Jews, B. makes the life of his wife Judith impossible, communism gets wiped out, the publishing house for which B. and Keserü work goes broke, B. commits suicide, after ending his life he causes a big crisis in Judith' second marriage and the manuscript of his novel is liquidated. A beautifully written book that leaves both the reader and Keserü empty-handed and with a lot of questions.
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The financial windfalls and market opportunities for selling your company are huge. But how do you know if that’s the right choice for you? To find out, you need to understand both the practical and personal repercussions of your decision—as Mike Cohn and Jayne Pearl demonstrate in their insightful new book, Keep or Sell Your Business. Cohn and Pearl provide detailed steps for analyzing the state of your company, examining the opportunities to sell, weighing the benefits of keeping your company, and managing your wealth after the business is sold.
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The complete do-it-yourself Bankruptcy Kit with all the forms required to discharge consumer debts under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, including judgement liens, non-purchase money liens, tax liens, medical bills and credit card charges, plus information regarding the dischargeability of Student Loans. Includes completed examples of each form.
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Last Rights: Liquidating a Company (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis Series)
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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This book explains in clear and concise language how to wind-down and bring to a successful conclusion the liquidation of a company, where to find hidden values, and what problems to look for. The mystery and legalese is cut through and a simple, understandable guide is provided for the various ways of liquidating a company.
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Liquidacion / Liquidation
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** NOBEL LAUREATE 2002**
A dry and bitter story (vital and optimistic at the same time) narrates the unimaginable life of Bé, a "writer" born in Auschwitz who was baptized with the letter B and a series of numbers tattooed on his thigh. Bé commits suicide shortly after the fall of Communism in Hungary, in 1990, and his editor friend Keserú, tries to narrate his life while he searches for Bé's unpublished novel. In 150 pages Kertész describes the torture of writing about horror and, defends the power of love, literature and memories to overcome the Auschwitz experience.
Description in Spanish: Keseru trabaja en una editorial y ha recogido los papeles póstumos de B, su amigo escritor, que se ha suicidado. Busca entre ellos una novela inédita y se embarca sin esperarlo en la revisión de su propia vida. Es entonces cuando comienza a desvelarse también la historia que está detrás del escritor: su pasado en Auschwitz, sus historias de amor, sus obras inacabadas y la influencia que tuvieron sobre él los cambios políticos de finales de los ochenta.
En la nueva novela de Imre Kertész después del Premio Nobel, los personajes, sometidos a las devastadoras consecuencias de los totalitarismos del siglo XX, se enfrentan a un mundo sin lógica en una obra heredera de la mejor tradición literaria
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Special situation investing: Hedging, arbitrage, and liquidation
Brian J Stark
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amazing book.......2007-10-11
This is an amazing book. Very beautifully written. I keep rereading and it gets better and better everytime. Highly recommend it.
Once in a Blue Moon.......2007-09-26
Once in a Blue Moon has always been a favorite. This was my third time to purchase this book. Of course, the other two I have lend out in the past and never returned so I assumed it became a favorite to friends of mine. I fell in love with McCady and Jessalyn. Hey, I can't help it. They seem so real to me. Thanks to Ms. Penelope Williamson...cheers to you ma'am.
*psst* Romance readers....over here........2007-09-22
This is the one. This is why romance novels exist. I love the genre, but far too often I'm disappointed. Far too often, I finish the book and toss it into the pile to go away. Far away. But not this one. Once in a Blue Moon is such a wonderful, sweeping, emotional ride that I have been rereading bits of it for the past several days while I wait for my next PW book to arrive. It's just that good. My lord is it good. Don't miss this one, ladies.
One of the best romance novels that I have read in a long time!.......2006-12-18
Every once in a while a book comes along that just grabs you from beginning to end, it entices you and makes you never want to put it down. This is one such book. The moment that I read the summary of the book on the back I was hooked. Immediately I started reading it, and I never wanted it to end. It was just that great. From beginning to end it keeps you on your toes, and characters Jessalyn and McCady will make you both want to scream and cry. It's a romance that seems like it is never gonna come to pass. It keeps you wishing, and it also breaks your heart. I recommend this book very highly.
My Favorite Book.......2005-12-22
I cannot believe the editorial review - did you read it? If you have read this book then you would have thought HOW RUDE! This book is so good, I can't even explain it. I love all types of books some by Stephen King, Pierce Anthony, Dean Koontz, Marrion Zimmer Bradley and more - some of these are hard to read, good books but it takes more effort to understand the plot lines etc. I have read Once in a Blue Moon at least 15 times, it is an easy read but that is one of the things that is wonderful about it - you can just sit back and relax and enjoy this fantastic love story. It's the book I grab when I'm feeling depressed or having a really bad day and just need to escape to a world where things are hard but everything turns out perfect in the end. I know that doesn't even begin to explain it but belive me, just read the book and you'll love it!
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One of the best books EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-10-15
I am an interracial relationship(BWWM) book guru. You name I have read. This is one of the best. Oh my God had me from Day1. Its so good I am not going to realive the story for you, I dont' want to waste it.
Once was Enough!.......2006-06-04
This is the story of Denise Adams (black) and Ian Phillips (white) who end up working on a technology project together. I liked Ian and tolerated Denise and thought that the love scenes were very PG. This novel would have received at least 3 stars but for the significant portion of the book detailing Denise's family who epitomize black bigotry. Denise basically dated Ian in secret, afraid of her family's rejection. The idea that Denise's sister Lynn would literally suffer a stroke brought on by the knowledge that her sister was sleeping with Ian was a joke. Quite frankly if Lynn had died it would not have mattered much to me - that's how ridiculous her views and opinions were. Overall, this novel made race an overwhelming obstacle and detracted greatly from whatever romance there was between Ian and Denise.
This was a very nice story......I don't care what you ppl say! LOL.......2006-05-28
Granted I wish Denise would not have allowed her family, especially her sister, to dictate who she should spend the rest her life with but she came to her senses in the end. Ian's character was fantastic, he was well developed, he was emotionally involved in the woman he knew was just right for him. He was smart, sensitive, and patient, mad props. I agree that so much of the story though was centered on the Denise's family, but there must have been a reason. I found this book in my library, and I was anxious to read it, I am glad I did.
The only thing I did not care for was the cover. They did not in anyway represent the characters in the book at all. Also, they are the same models on the cover of Rendevous with Fate, I think. I don't think finding love with a different race can happen once in a blue moon. Obviously looking at all the interracial couples in this day and age, some have found it once, twice, and three times.
Romance, Romance.......2006-04-24
I loved this book. Ian was a delight. Denise is truly the love of his life. Her family members and his are hilarious and memorable; they have an enviable cohesiveness that combines in-laws, traditions, history, blood-ties, and, most of all, love. Not only is the family love evident, but also the expressed love in marital relationships that is too often missing in many homes, regardless of race. The cover doesn't do justice to Ian and Denise of the story; in fact, it doesn't even come close. It reads fast. I read it in less than a day. I couldn't stop. It far exceeded my expectations.
It was good, .......2006-04-15
This was a good read, not the best... after reading reviews on here, I decided to order it, and like other people said... Denise is a grown woman and as long as she was in love and Ian was treating her right, to hell with what her sister Lynn had to say about it. I'll read this again.
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interesting character study .......2006-10-09
In Shreveport, Louisiana, her friends assume that Lola Nelson has moved on since the death of her spouse because she seems so together. However, at night Lola feels alone and wonders if life is worth it. She needs a change to bring back the passion of life that died with her husband. So she decides to fulfill a childhood dream by buying a blue beach house in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Lola is accompanied by her beach bunnies pals the still married Shelby Harold, now single Emma Strickland, and Chloe Simons, whose mother is unable to take care of herself. The weary four over drinks share their disappointments in relationships when the horde that of three them left behind descend on them in need; for Lola the neighbor begins to fulfill her need.
The tale starts off as a serious character study starring a lonely woman, but quickly turns into a deep amusing look at relationships as the four females escape the horde only to be invaded not long afterward. This is reminiscent of Groucho's cabin scene in A Night at the Opera. The humorous invasion adds to the glimpse of living not just surviving after a loved one dies as Lola sees the differences first hand. ONCE IN A BLUE MOON is well worth reading.
Harriet Klausner
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Once In A Blue Moon
E. W. Lucas
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Release Date: 2006-11-08 |
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Homicide Detective Sable James pursues a serial killer, dubbed the Cupid Slasher, who removes the hearts of it's victims in present day Wash., D.C. A reporter, a psychiatrist and an abortion clinic owner all share a special link to the bloody carnage. Could one of them be causing the mayhem? Detective James must delve into the dark side of the abortion business and the mysticism of ancient Egyptian mythology to find answers. Can the FBI or Detective Sable James stop the bloodshed before more victims succumb to the killer's knife?
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a neat little book.......2006-03-13
Acorn Books are a fantastic independent publisher who specialise in (literally) small books. This short collection of stories from the award-winning Mills is not their finest volume but is a neat little book that is well worth a read.
I tend to keep a selection of their books in the guest room and many visitors have enjoyed dipping into them when they stay.
If you are a fan of Magnus Mills then this would be a nice addition to your collection. If you fancy checking out other books from this publisher then I recommend Snow by Maxence Fermine which is their finest.
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Once In a Blue Moon
Nicola Morgan
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Once in a Blue Moon
Maria Iacuele
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Release Date: 2006-01-13 |
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"Ruthless People in a MidWinter Night's Dream". During the Christmas Season, a feisty young woman fights the effects of a "love potion" while trying to save her Toy Store from being taken over by a sinister competitor.
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Sheet music from 1921. Includes Once in a Blue Moon, Home Again Blues, and Rosie, Make It Rosy For Me.
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