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Indlæser... Shanghai '37 (1939)af Vicki Baum
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/baum-vicki Eine Autorin, die man im Bücherschrank der Eltern oder Großeltern findet, und zuhauf auf jedem größeren Flohmarkt. Aber die Lektüre lohnt durchaus, und nicht nur, weil man erschreckt feststellt, wie wenig sich eigentlich verändert hat: entwurzelte Menschen, die sich irgendwie durchschlagen müssen. Städte, in denen sich diese Lebensläufe kreuzen und die davon leben, dass sie viele Sprachen und viele Nationalitäten mischen. Einzig ihr Hang zur Verallgemeinerung von sogenannten "nationalen" Charaktereigenschaften stört. Originalmente titulada "Shanghai 1937", esta novela vio la luz de forma más o menos clandestina en 1939, el año en que los nazis quemaron tantos y tantos libros, entre ellos los de Vicki Baum, que era judía. Ya en 1929, la autora había anticipado en "Gran Hotel" la decadencia de la sociedad alemana en el período pre-nazi, la pérdida de valores oculta bajo un falso refinamiento. "Shanghai Hotel" es también una terrorífica premonición de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En su primera parte nos narra la peripecia vital de nueve personajes procedentes de todos los lugares del mundo, que no se conocen entre sí; en la segunda parte, todos ellos coinciden en la cosmopolita ciudad de Shanghai, alrededor del Shanghai Hotel, y allí es donde sus destinos se cruzarán y donde encontrarán (como sabe el lector desde el principio) la muerte, víctimas de una de las primeras bombas de la guerra chino-japonesa. After the success of Grand Hotel, in 1931 Baum and her family left Austria for the US, which probably saved their lives. Her father stayed behind and was killed. In 1937 Baum travelled to Shanghai, where she knew many people, and learned a great deal about China and its politics, and life in Shanghai. Desperate Jews had fled Germany for the Shanghai international zone, where Jewish welfare groups found them accommodation and subsistence level employment. No papers were needed there: it was the one place in the world where stateless people could be assured of entry. Russians escaping the revolution also found their way to Shanghai. Baum's novel traces the lives of nine people: a rickshaw driver, a Chinese gangster, a Russian adventuress, an aristrocratic English drunk, a Jewish doctor, a German musician, a Hawaiian-American man, an English nurse and a Japanese journalist. Their paths cross at the Shanghai Hotel on one day in 1937. The book was melodramatic, as you would expect, but the characters were based on real people, and Baum knew a great deal about life in Shanghai in 1937. Shanghai '37 was first published in the US in 1939. It was fascinating. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Vicki Baum, author of the acclaimed Grand Hotel, visited Shanghai in 1937. Her many friends there provided her with a wealth of information about China's convoluted politics, and the secret life and unique personalities of Shanghai--material she used as the basis of Shanghai '37. The hotel depicted in the novel was the Cathay, which, on August 14, 1937, following the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, was attacked by a bomb. This incident, known as "Bloody Saturday," caused considerable damage and the deaths of many people. It forms the climax of Shanghai '37, a story that follows the lives of nine people to Shanghai and the hour of their death. This book, the second of Baum's "hotel" novels, was first published in America in 1939. No library descriptions found. |
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