Título: The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping
Autor: Aharon Appelfeld
Sinopse: rwin doesn’t remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended because he spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and made their way to the shores of Naples, where they filled refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group of boys being rigorously trained both physically and mentally by an emissary from Palestine for life in their new home. The fog of sleep slowly begins to lift, and when Erwin and his fellow clandestine immigrants are released by British authorities from the detention camp in Atlit, he and his comrades are assigned to a kibbutz, where they learn how to tend to the land and speak their new language. But a part of Erwin desperately clings to the past–to memories of his parents, to his mother tongue, to the Ukrainian city where he was born–and he knows that despite what he is being told, who he was is just as important as who he is now becoming. When he is wounded in an engagement with snipers, Erwin must spend long months recovering from multiple surgeries and trying to regain the use of his legs. As he exercises his body, he exercises his mind as well, copying passages from the Bible in his newly acquired Hebrew and working up the courage to create his own texts in this language both old and new, hoping to succeed as a writer where his beloved, tormented father had failed. With the support of his friends and of other survivors, and with the encouragement of his mother (who visits him in his dreams), Erwin takes his first tentative steps with his crutches–and with his pen. Once again, Aharon Appelfeld mines heartrending personal experience to create dazzling, masterly fiction with a universal resonance.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping”, de Aharon Appelfeld, publicado pela editora Schocken, em 2017 e com 304 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Schocken
Páginas: 304
Ano: 2017
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Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN:
ISBN13: 9780805243192
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Schocken costumam oferecer uma experiência de leitura marcada por textos densos e reflexivos, que transitam entre memórias pessoais, ensaios históricos e narrativas existenciais. O catálogo privilegia obras que exploram conflitos profundos, como a luta contra regimes totalitários, crises de identidade cultural e dilemas éticos, frequentemente ambientados em contextos históricos complexos, como o Holocausto, o Oriente Médio contemporâneo e o universo judaico. A linguagem tende a ser precisa e cuidadosa, com um tom que varia do intimista ao analítico, convidando o leitor a refletir sobre temas como memória, identidade, autoridade e espiritualidade. Entre os livros, há desde relatos autobiográficos até diálogos filosóficos, o que sugere um equilíbrio entre narrativas mais narrativas e outras mais informativas e interpretativas.
