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For Two Thousand Years

For Two Thousand Years
Mihail Sebastian
Penguin Books Ltd
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Artikel-Nr:
9780241189610
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.02.2016
Seiten:
240
Autor:
Mihail Sebastian
Gewicht:
183 g
Format:
198x126x20 mm
Serie:
Penguin Modern Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Mihail Sebastian was born in Romania in 1907 as Iosef Hecter. He worked as a lawyer and writer until anti-Semitic legislation forced him to abandon his public career. Having survived the war and the Holocaust, he was killed in a road accident early in 1945 as he was crossing the street to teach his first class. His long-lost diary, Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years, was published to great acclaim in the late 1990s.

'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the Year

A prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time

'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him.

Mihail Sebastian's 1934 novel was written amid the anti-Semitism which would, by the end of the decade, force him out of his career and turn his friends and colleagues against him. For Two Thousand Years is a lucid, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.

"Ich habe Leute beim Roulette gesehen, die vor Spielleidenschaft ganz entstellt waren. Aber am verworfensten scheinen mir nicht die, die sich wie wahnsinnig ins Spiel stürzten, alles verlieren: Geld, Ehre und Leben, sondern die ängstlichen Spieler, die um jede Spielmarke zittern, alle fünf Minuten endlose Berechnungen anstellen und das Spiel abbrechen, wenn sie eine noch annehmbare Verlustgrenze erreicht haben. Die Mittelmäßigkeit beim Laster scheint mir die entehrendste aller Mittelständigkeiten."

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