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kiriamarin's review against another edition
4.0
Este é um breve diario de uma inesperada amizade no verao de 46 que Inger fez com um soldado ingles de origem judia, que no entanto ofereceu algumas observacoes sobre " o mundo de ontem' como Zweig cunhou sobre a Austria antes da guerra e o que se tornou com o nazismo e seus fanaticos. Bachmann se motrou uma adolescente tenaz,sarcastica, com uma inteligencia e individualidade de pensamento sobre sua realidade e ideias que já a distingue dos seus amigos,familiares e conhecidos imersos ns instituicoes nazistas.Ela busca a solitude de uma escritora promissora.As cartas de Jakob para Inger tambem tambem dao um breve olhar sobre o sentimento agustiante de exilio e vazio de reconstruir a vida longe da patria. Interessante.
cooeeaus's review against another edition
2.0
The Diary itself was far too short to be published, I didn't really think it gave a true reflection of the events. If her whole diary had of been preserved, then this would have been a worthwhile project. The Letters of Jack Hamesh ran on and on and were too laden with romantic drivel to be of interest.
Overall, the reading itself was okay but the content and quality was lacking. I wouldn't encourage you to go out of your way for this one. If you want to read a war diary I don't think this is it. I'd like to find another diary actually, with a bit more 'meat'.
Overall, the reading itself was okay but the content and quality was lacking. I wouldn't encourage you to go out of your way for this one. If you want to read a war diary I don't think this is it. I'd like to find another diary actually, with a bit more 'meat'.
piccoline's review
3.0
Curious little swatch of history. Bachmann's "diary" is actually a very short excerpt (which is, painfully, all that survives -- oh that there were more!!) about her meeting with the British soldier (of Jewish ancestry, born in Vienna) in postwar Austria. Their meeting was transformative for both of them. She walked the streets of their town with him, in defiance of the (obviously) still anti-Semitic townspeople and her parents. He fell in love with her. The last 2/3 of the book comprises his letters to her from Naples, then from Palestine. He'd clearly fallen for her, rather hard, but the letters also contain interesting historical details of that chaotic time. (One only wishes that her letters to him had been similarly preserved. To have more insight into that 19- and 20-year-old Bachmann would be wonderful.)
This is probably for Bachmann completists only (which I'm not, yet, having still to tackle Malina, Book of Franza, and Fanny Goldman). It's a beautiful little book, though, as an object. Seagull continues to impress.
This is probably for Bachmann completists only (which I'm not, yet, having still to tackle Malina, Book of Franza, and Fanny Goldman). It's a beautiful little book, though, as an object. Seagull continues to impress.
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