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Children and Fools (Masks)

Children and Fools (Masks)

by Martin Chalmers (Translator), ErichFried (Author)

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    Paperback 1992

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Synopsis

The most widely read German poet of his time, Erich Fried was also a writer of wonderful prose. Children and Fools is the first publication of Fried's stories in English. In style they range from fable to autobiography. In time they move from earliest memories of the untrustworthiness of adults to exile in blacked-out, wartime London. From his spare account of St George's fight with the dragon to his realistic reportage on the third Reich, 'My Doll in Auschwitz', these pieces are tied together by a vehement anti-war sentiment and a delight in language. Fried's cunning sense of humour and fairy tale narratives are his way of dealing with devastating personal history of dislocation and persecution.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 168
 Edition: Reissue
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 15 Oct 1992
ISBN 10: 1852422114
ISBN 13: 9781852422110

Media Reviews
'Erich Fried was not only a poet but a skilful storyteller - both as a writer and in everyday life. His large repertory drew on two sources. One was life as seen by a Jewish boy growing up in Vienna in the twenties and thirties. The other was the tradition rooted in the shtetls of Eastern Europe which has produced extraordinary, funny, serious stories about the 'wunder-rabbis', their sayings and paradoxes. Behind Fried's delight in oddities, in the ridiculous nature of human existence there was a deep sadness caused by the shadow of the Holocaust. Typically he called his most moving account of that tragedy: My Doll in Auschwitz ? Stuart Hood
Author Bio
Erich Fried was forced to flee Vienna in 1938 after his father's murder by the Gestapo. Fried escaped to London, where he lived until his death in 1988. Throughout his life, he was a much-loved figure on the German and Austrian literary and political scenes.