- Paperback: 486 pages
- Publisher: ORION; New edition edition (2 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1870015703
- ISBN-13: 978-1870015707
- Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 21.9 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 750,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'We are reminded of Kafka: dreamlike conversations, introspection of a disturbed soul, an orgy of a nervous breakdown. Married Life is a masterpiece, a find.'
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'This is an important novel, not only as the historic document that it is, but as a work of literature that echoes both Kafka and Mann.'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Simply the best! A privileged glimpse of a grim destiny.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Married Life (Paperback)
"In the passage the tap woke up with a roar." - I was hooked on this marvellous book from the first sentence. The Vienna of the 1920's, with its social decay, is the setting for this humiliating relationship between a poor Jewish intellectual and an Austrian baroness, also Jewish. Of particular note (to me) is their lack of religious observance, demonstrating how both the Austrian and the German Jews had thought themselves to be assimilated and, mistakenly, assumed themselves to be Austrians, or Germans, to whom, however, they were just 'Jews'. We are exposed to many interesting and disturbing characters and poignant and heart-rending sketches, portraying both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The deterioration of the marriage of the protagonist and his wife is disturbing and the degradation to which he is subjected could be seen to be a prediction of what is to come in the next decade in Vienna and war-torn Europe. This is not a book to be missed - I could hardly bear to put it down!It is sad to note that the author himself, a Jew, David Vogel, was first detained by the French as an Austrian enemy alien, until France was occupied; he was later deported to a concentration camp in 1944 where it was assumed that he died.
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This review is from: Married Life (Hardcover)
"In the passage the tap woke up with a roar." - I was hooked on this marvellous book from the first sentence. The Vienna of the 1920's, with its social decay, is the setting for this humiliating relationship between a poor Jewish intellectual and an Austrian baroness, also Jewish. Of particular note (to me) is their lack of religious observance, demonstrating how both the Austrian and the German Jews had thought themselves to be assimilated and, mistakenly, assumed themselves to be Austrians, or Germans, to whom, however, they were just 'Jews'. We are exposed to many interesting and disturbing characters and poignant and heart-rending sketches, portraying both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The deterioration of the marriage of the protagonist and his wife is disturbing and the degradation to which he is subjected could be seen to be a prediction of what is to come in the next decade in Vienna and war-torn Europe. This is not a book to be missed - I could hardly bear to put it down!
It is sad to note that the author himself, a Jew, David Vogel, was first detained by the French as an Austrian enemy alien, until France was occupied; he was later deported to a concentration camp in 1944 where it was assumed that he died. This book was found buried after the Shoah - it was apparently the only one the author wrote.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Hebrew Fiction Abroad,
By Eric Maroney - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Married Life (Hebrew Classics) (Paperback)
David Vogel was a Hebrew poet and novelist who died at the hands of the Nazis in 1944. Married Life, his only long work in English translation, chronicles the world which Vogel inhabited, seedy Vienna between the World Wars, a place where marginalization was the norm. Married Life stands on its own legs, but it is all the more amazing when the reader realizes that this novel was written in Hebrew in Europe, by a man who did not speak Hebrew as his daily language or live in Palestine, which had a population of native Hebrew speakers, in some numbers, since the end of the 19th century. Vogel inserted his Hebrew into situations where it did not belong, plunging it into the kind of normality it would not receive until the full-flowering of Hebrew in British Mandate Palestine and later the State of Israel. So for this reason, but by no means the only or most important, Vogel's work is significant. He was one of the last secular writers of Hebrew to write outside the land of Israel. His poems, novels and novellas stand as interesting testaments to a language and people in transition to their own state and culture.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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An outstanding novel,
By mary - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Married Life (Hardcover)
This is a novel that brings the story of a twisted relation between a man and a woman in the atmosphere of the 19 century in Europe. It is a very piercing novel and it stayed with me although I have read it a long time ago. It is about an obsession of a weak man for a cruel dominating woman.It is written in a very special style and I think it is a masterpiece. |
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