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Speak You Also
A Survivor's Reckoning
by Paul Steinberg
ISBN: 0312420455
ISBN-13: 9780312420451
Format: Paperback
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Summary
It long plagued this memoirist why, against all odds, he could count himself among the survivors of Auschwitz. This self-confrontational memoir faces the horror of the camps as well as the horrors of the psychological transformations he underwent while a prisoner. Steinberg died in 1999.
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"Like the best of the genre, Steinberg's searching self-examination compels one to clarify values and the social and political responsibility one bears toward these values. Which is another way of saying that his is a work of permanent significance. I find it hard to imagine reading Levi's classic work except in tandem with Steinberg's brief for the defence." -- Lawerence Powell
-- Nation
"It is cunningly constructed, so that as well as the experience of the Lager itself we follow the experience of remembering; and it is hard to say which is the more dangerous. And it is full of penetrating intelligence and sharp observation." -- Carole Angier
-- Literary Review
"One of the things that makes SPEAK YOU ALSO so powerful is that Steinberg doesn't know what to make of himself: neither the younger self that he is trying to recollect nor the much older self who is struggling to write the book....[T]he question of what it is for a Holocaust memoir to be well written-and therefore of what is legitimate or appropriate criticism of such literature-is at the heart of Steinberg's remarkable book; and of a piece with the character of his younger self that he re-creates so strikingly. Because there is something stylish about the young Steinberg, as there is about all picaresque heroes, and as there shouldn't be about Holocaust survivors." -- Adam Phillips
-- London Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Picador USA
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.35 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Arrested in Paris in 1943, the sixteen-year-old Steinberg was deported to Auschwitz. As a chemistry student, he was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize him as "Henri," the prisoner who clung to his life at the cost of his own humanity in Survival in Auschwitz. Fifty years later, in this unsparing act of self-examination, Steinberg ultimately confirms Levi's judgment of him: "Probably I was that creature, prepared to use whatever means I had available." But he asks, "Is it so wrong to survive?"
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Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning
Paul Steinberg
Picador, 2001-12-07. Like New. Uncorrected Proof. Clean covers with sharp corners, clean and tight pages, square: a very crisp, sweet copy. ( more information) Offered by Driftless Books and Music (United States)
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Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning
Steinberg, Paul
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Picador USA. Very Good -/No Jacket. 2001. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0312420455 Has light shelfwear, Remainder mark, Internally Clean. . ( more information) Offered by The John Bale Book Co. (United States)
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Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning
Paul Steinberg; Translator-Linda Coverdale
Picador, 2001-12-07. Paperback. Like New. 2001 edition, book reflects age. Book has wear from storage and use; otherwise the book is in very good condition. Free tracking information available ( more information) Offered by Readers_Anonymous (United States)
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Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning
Steinberg, Paul
New York: Picador USA, 2001 Pp 163. Softcover. Very Good/Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by The Edmonton Book Store (Canada)
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Paul Steinberg; Translator-Linda Coverdale
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Paul Steinberg, Linda Coverdale
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Steinberg, Paul
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