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Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest and Odessa, both before and after the Second World War, Edgardo Cozarinsky's stories belong to the spirit of Borges and to a great Argentine cosmopolitan tradition: that of the uprooted exile, the plaything of History, who, set down in a strange but proud land, looks back nostalgically to the Europe of his ancestral memories. Cozarinsky's characters are writers, lovers, scholars, artists and dreamers. An ambitious young Jew, about to marry and embark for a new life in Argentina is accosted by an unknown woman who departs with him to Buenos Aires; a pianist in a Buenos Aires nightclub finds himself drawn back to Germany in 1937; an Argentine-American Jew travels to Lisbon to unravel the threads of his grandparents' wartime affair... They are all travellers of a kind, characters who inhabit a secret land, without frontiers.… (meer)
This collection of stories highlights many of the themes and ideas expressed in Cozarinsky's novel, The Moldavian Pimp, which I read and loved earlier this month. Characters move from country to country, search for their true identity and their ancestors, sometimes change their identity, feel lost in a new (or old) land, obsess over the past, and find or lose love. Like Cozarinksy himself, many character are, or were once, Jewish Argentinians, but nearly all of them (or their ancestors) wander between Europe and the "new" world. Some of the stories, such as the title one, are extremely compelling, others less so, but it is overall a fine collection and Cozarinsky is an excellent writer.
A collection of short stories from the Argentine filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky. Many of the stories have an immigrant and/or Eastern European Jewish theme--or themes about identificaton or mis-identification. In particular I liked the title story--Budapest and Emigre Hotel. Budapest is about an artist who has given up his own creations to fake masterpieces because he can make more money at it. In the story he arrives at an estate in Hungary with the purpose of bilking an old lady out of her one art treasure. For some inexplicable reason he decides not to and then later on that night dies of a heart attack. Emigre Hotel is set in Portugal on the eve of World War II and involves two German refugees from the Spanish Civil War--one Jewish--one not and their friend an American heiress who can marry only one to bring back to the United States.
These stories are well concieved. Not hard to figure that Cozarinsky's career as a filmmaker doesn't hurt him at all. Scene by scene they unfold. They are well told--both lucid and compelling--oftentimes insightful. A short work however--only 161 pages--but well worth reading. ( )
7 små historier, många med andra världskriget och flykt som tema. Bäst gillade jag den första berättelsen där den nygifta frun inte vill följa med båten till Argentina. Då tar mannen med sig en annan kvinna istället. Hon får brudens identitet. ( )
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Die Braut aus Odessa: An einem Frühlingsnachmittag im Jahre 1890 beobachtete ein junger Mann vom Primorsky Boulevard aus die Bewegung der Schiffe im Hafen von Odessa.
Literatur: Meine Tante Ignacia fing bei ihrer Zeitungslektüre immer mit den Todesanzeigen an.
Tage des Jahres 1937: Der Pianist in der Konfiserie Boston liess seine Interpretation von Smoke Gets in Your Eyes in der unausbleiblichen Kaskade von Arpeggios gipfeln, der das nächtliche Publikum weniger gleichgültigen Applaus zollte als sonst üblich.
Anblick des Morgengrauens über einem See: Die Frau öffnete die Tür so leise, wie sie die ihre geschlossen hatte.
Weihnachten '54: Der Literat hielt inne, um sich die neuen riesigen Porträts des Präsidenten und seiner verstorbenen Gattin anzusehen.
Obskure Lieben: Die hochmütigen Glockentürme der Eglise Saint-Sulpice hatten schon Mitternacht geschlagen und das helle Rechteck des Fensters - ein Zwischenstock in der Rue Servandoni - war immer noch erleuchtet.
Emigrantenhotel: Am Abend des 3. Oktober 1940 stach der Dampfer Nea Hellas unter griechischer Flagge vom Hafen von Lissabon aus zu einer Atlantiküberquerung Richtung New York in See.
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Die Braut aus Odessa: Zwei Jahre später gehorcht er jedoch einem Impuls, den er nicht zu erklären vermag, und schreibt sie als Erzählung auf.
Literatur: Sie kamen mir ironisch vor, und diese Ironie war nicht von Keats beabsichtigt, die Geschichte hatte sie listig auf sie gelegt wie eine dünne Ascheschicht und sie galt allein mir.
Emigrantenhotel: An diesem Nachmittag habe ich wieder am Aussichtspunkt Santa Lucia angehalten und einer der alten Schachspieler grüsste mich mit einem stummen Kopfnicken.
Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest and Odessa, both before and after the Second World War, Edgardo Cozarinsky's stories belong to the spirit of Borges and to a great Argentine cosmopolitan tradition: that of the uprooted exile, the plaything of History, who, set down in a strange but proud land, looks back nostalgically to the Europe of his ancestral memories. Cozarinsky's characters are writers, lovers, scholars, artists and dreamers. An ambitious young Jew, about to marry and embark for a new life in Argentina is accosted by an unknown woman who departs with him to Buenos Aires; a pianist in a Buenos Aires nightclub finds himself drawn back to Germany in 1937; an Argentine-American Jew travels to Lisbon to unravel the threads of his grandparents' wartime affair... They are all travellers of a kind, characters who inhabit a secret land, without frontiers.
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