Aaron's Leap
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934137707 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 221 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Told in clear and beautiful prose, Aaron’s Leap is a deeply moving portrait of love, sacrifice, and the transformative power of art in a time of brutal uncertainty.” SIMON VAN BOOY, author of The Illusion of SeparatenessBased on the real-life story of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Aaron’s Leap is framed by the lens of a twenty first-century Israeli film crew delving into the extraordinary life of a woman who taught art to children in the Nazi transport camp of Terezín and died in Auschwitz. She is the author of a children’s book, two collections of short stories, and three novels, including Aaron’s Leap, a Lidové Noviny Book of the Year Award finalist, hailed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a novel that must be counted among the best written by contemporary Czech writers.” It is her first book to be published in English.. Aided by the granddaughter of one of the artist’s pupils, the filmmakers begin to uncover buried s
Among those intimates is Kristýna Hládkovà, a minor artist living in present-day Prague who recalls Berta for a documentary helmed by Aaron, a Czech Jew from Israel. From Publishers Weekly Czech author Platzová makes her English-language debut with a historical novel of prewar Weimar and the Bauhaus school, which also manages to be about the disparity between memory and history. Berta Altmann grows up in Vienna, a devoted diarist who records the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the birth of the Austrian Communist Party. She goes with her occasional lover, Max, to Germany, where they study with Czerny, the famous architect, painting light and weaving abstraction as the shadows of the Nazi party gather around them. Platzová's prose is as sharp and effective as the angles of an expressionist monument. But the premiere of Berta Altmann: Artist and Teacher will have uni
emicic said Dreamy detailed character sketches. A narrative mosaic about creative people traversing the darkest parts of the Twentieth century. The story provides insights into the complex relationships between artists and their teachers, their works, their colleagues, and themselves. Somewhat less informative about the political situation of Europe pre-World War II, although it is there in the backdrop, and thus skirts the tenuous relationship between art and politics, but that isn't really the point. Bittersweet details emerge about human relationships,