ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1998
Autor: Domaći
Jezik: Engleski

The Book of Blam is a modern-day retelling of the book of Job. The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Grün, the hunchbacked watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob Mentele, a stove fitter; and Arthur Spitzer, a grocer, who played amateur soccer and had non-Jewish friends; and Sándor Vértes, a lawyer who was a Communist. All dead. As are his younger sister and his best friend, a Serb, both of whom joined the resistance movement; and his mother and father in the infamous Novi Sad raid in January 1942—when the Hungarian Arrow Cross executed 1,400 Jews and Serbs on the banks of the Danube and tossed them into the river.

U Knjizi o Blamu ostvarena je priča o tragičnoj sudbini novosadskih Jevreja i o jednom preživelom, zahvaljujući konvertitstvu, Miroslavu Blamu. Knjiga prati poistovećivanje junaka sa žrtvom, sazrevanje svesti junaka da je, uprkos svemu ili baš zbog svega, predodređen da bude žrtva. Zato Miroslav Blam, lutajući ulicama, priziva smrt kako bi prevazišao stid. Na etičkom planu Knjiga o Blamu otvorila je važnu temu – izlaženje na kraj sa prošlošću kroz suočavanje sa njom, to jest identifikaciju sa trenucima kada su moralne odluke mogle biti donete a nisu. Knjigom o Blamu Tišma smelo otvara novo poglavlje u tematizaciji holokausta, koje obeležava poslednje tri decenije evropske književnosti.

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