ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1965
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Ludwig Bemelmans - Are You Hungry, Are You Cold
Mayflower / Dell, 1965
175 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

LUDWIG BEMELMANS has written some twenty books for adults
and the Madeline books for children, and is a painter. He had decided to give up writing anything except illustrated children`s books (`I hate to work, to write. I would rather paint, where it is all emotion and you don`t have to think.`), until he came upon the irresistible inspiration for this book.

THE book is marvelous. Aside from the style, which is delicious, and the in-cidents, which are wonderfully amusing, the really extraordinary thing about it is the character of the girl. In an odd fashion, her peculiar cynicism, lack of illusions, streaks of cruelty, and human-less humor seem so representative of her whole generation. She`s related to Marlon Brando, the Actors` Studio, Elvis Presley, juvenile delinquents, your daughter, my daughter, and the whole lot. Bravo!`-Alan Jay Lerner
ARE YOU HUNGRY ARE YOU COLD
This is the new Bemelmans-exciting, and in a new vein, sharp as a bayonet, tender as spring rain. In other words, uniquely Bemelmans.
It is the story of a girl who grows up in a world gone mad, the world of pre-war France and postwar Germany. She is the daughter of a complete militarist-her father is a Colonel when she is born and a General in charge of a large sector of Occupied Germany as she approaches maturity. She is subjected to the same scipline which he imposes on his sol-
ers: there are no words or acts of love
her from her father, or her mother.
t she has the power over others which
the privilege of the conqueror. What
s warped life, lived in a time of law-
sness, does to her makes savage and
cinating reading.
And yet this novel of a condition of he and lost youth, as bitter as anything itten, is full of magic humor-the smil-kind and the roaring kind. Which it uld be only as written by Bemelmans master cynic, a gentle man who hides pity for the sad under a mask of norous appreciation of man`s folly. re is a story of love and war, of peace I passion, alive with conflict, and no who reads it will not be touched, ddened, enlightened, disturbed, ertained.


Punishments and not love are rules for the teller of this chronicle of revolt — the unnamed daughter of a French militarist, a Spanish mother, and the sister of Hugo, as unhappy as she. A martinet and a perfectionist, her father, in command of a regiment and cavalry school, takes his children from the kind, careless hands of their two nurses, and learns, when he sends the girl to a convent, that her defiance becomes an obligatory obstinacy. He learns, too, from a stay in Spain, that his daughter is finding out how to live within herself and, after a return to France, and then on to occupied Germany, and another session in a convent, the girl turns out to be a match for not only parental supervision but also the reprisals of the enemy. For with Hugo, and their friends, Alain and his sister Veronique, she is committed to the belief that they are monsters because of their parents and the answer is violence. Military orders are the cause of Veronique`s death, and a major misdemeanor banishes Hugo and Alain — but the girl is ready to join with Alain on his return for whatever any kind of future may hold, convinced she is `judge of my sins, of my acts and of my faults.` A hard fibred Sagan quality here attends childish retaliations and young adult despair and creates an atmosphere of a world apart. For Bemelmans` followers this is a change of pace and it is not for the casual, average novel reader.
Kirkus review


Fiction,