Götz and Meyer

Ellen Elias-Bursac author David Albahari author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:17th Apr '15

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A Jewish schoolteacher tells the story of Wilhelm G tz and Erwin Meyer in the process of researching the deaths of his relatives during World War II. These two SS officers were assigned to drive a hermetically sealed truck in which concentration-camp prisoners were slowly asphyxiated. Soon this knowledge overwhelms day-to-day life, and the teacher comes to see past and present merge in a heartbreaking moment of remembrance. Among the best and most haunting novels about the Holocaust to emerge in the final years of the twentieth century, G tz and Meyer is David Albahari's masterpiece.

"At once a novel, fictional biography, history and meta-fictional commentary, G tz and Meyer, composed in a single hallucinatory paragraph without space breaks (stylistically redolent of W. G. Sebald), is simultaneously a masterful addition to the literature of the Holocaust and a fascinating philosophical meditation on that enormity." --San Francisco Chronicle A remarkable, unforgettable novel. -- Laura Farmer The Gazette

ISBN: 9781628970920

Dimensions: 204mm x 133mm x 13mm

Weight: 212g

180 pages