theprimolevifanblog:“It was my good fortune to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944…” is a subtly a
theprimolevifanblog:“It was my good fortune to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944…” is a subtly amazing way to start a book. What appears at first glance to be mere exposition is a daring, nightblack gem of a thesis statement; saith the author, Reader, I fell down a rabbit hole and visited another world, an evil world where even a prosaically cheerful concept like “good fortune” couldn’t help but take on twisted and absurd new meanings, and now I am going to tell you about it. From the first sentence one knows that the author has superhuman powers of restraint, and his weapon of choice is the devastating understatement. This is how you write a memoir. -- source link
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