Acknowledgements 1 - The Lecture 2 - The Exile 3 - The Wanderers 4 - The Cataclysm 5 - The Flight 6 - The Railroad 7 - The Ghetto 8 - The Human Day 9 - One Thousand Paces 10 - The Letter Writers 11 - The Escape 12 - The Survivor 13 - The Writer 14 - The Witness 15 - The Trial 16 - The Artist 17 - The Poet 18 - The Man Index
Peter Filkins is an award-winning translator and poet. He has translated three novels by H.G. Adler, Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, as well as the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the DAAD, and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock.
"The research and intellectual commitment behind the biography is
formidable...[Filkin] has done H. G. Adler more than justice: he
has created a luminous new work that parallels Adler's own practice
in its combination of lyrical prose, scrupulous scholarship and
humanism." -- Helen Finch, The University of Leeds, TLS
"Authoritative, deeply empathetic...a well-deserved celebration of
a courageous and determined public intellectual." -- Kirkus
Reviews
"This book is an intimate, detailed, and emotionally charged look
at the life and times of Hans Günther Adler...A deeply moving
tribute to a man dedicated to keeping human dignity alive amid some
of the greatest depravity the world has ever known, Filkins's
abundantly researched, honest book reveals Adler as a wounded,
flawed human being but also as a man gifted with inner strength,
endurance, and the burning desire to take what he was given and
make of
his life an inextinguishable light for a world bound by darkness."
-- Foreword Reviews
"[A] powerful portrait of Adler [...] this vivid biography
[creates] a convincing picture of a man who grappled with the
unimaginable and, upon his death, was justifiably called righteous"
-- Publishers Weekly
"I cannot put this book down. I do not want it to end. Adler's is a
world that bears inflections of Kafka, Levi, and ultimately Sebald
- before, during, and after the war - a world that was always about
to collapse, before, during, and after the war. And yet, in
Filkins's telling, this is a life as a nightmare one doesn't want
to shake off." -- André Aciman
"Every page of Adler's work was written with the urgent rigor
demanded by survivorship, and Peter Filkins - Adler's
English-language translator and now his world biographer - honors
that daunting mandate. His is a masterly and utterly engrossing
study of one of the greatest minds to have been forged in the
furnace of mid-twentieth-century Europe." -- Joshua Cohen
"Peter Filkins, the translator of three novels by the German-Czech
master and Holocaust survivor H.G. Adler, now offers a meticulously
researched biography of the writer, who has been compared to Kafka
and Robert Musil. Since Adler's novels (and his massive study
Theresienstadt 1941-1945) grew out of his own experiences, Filkins
was already fluent in the life as well as the work and deftly folds
his insights into the larger context of Adler's nightmarish
times." -- Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar
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