Böcker av Jean Améry

Probes into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. This book presents an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide.

-This is a collection of essays by world-famous author, Jean Amery, translated into English for the first time. -Although written prior to his death in 1978, their insights are as comptemporary and fresh as ever given the current political climate. -Amery's works have been a mainstay of IUP's Holocaust list of decades. /

This searing memoir of the author's concentration camp experience ';is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience' (Newsweek). ';Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world.' At the Mind's Limitsis the story of one man's incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survivalmental, moral, and physicalthrough the enormity of the Holocaust. Above all, this masterful record of introspection tells of a young Viennese intellectual's fervent vision of human nature and the betrayal of that vision. ';These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain... all the way to its stoic conclusion.' Primo Levi ';The testimony of a profoundly serious man.... In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true.' Irving Howe, The New Republic

Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love.Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging poor bungler Charles Bovary, the pathetic, laughable, cuckolded husband of Madame Bovary and the heartless creation of Gustave Flaubert. As a once-promising novelist who was tortured by the Nazis and survived a year in Auschwitz, author Jean Améry had a particular sympathy for the lived experience of vulnerability, affliction, and suffering, and in this book-available in English for the first time-he asserts the moral claims of Dr. Bovary. What results is a moving paean to the humanity of Charles Bovary and to the supreme value of love.