冰冷的火葬场 来自奥斯威辛集中营的报道 英文原版 Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

基本信息

Publisher ? : ? St. Martin's Press (January 23, 2024)

Language ? : ? English

Hardcover ? : ? 256 pages

ISBN-10 ? : ? 1250290538

ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-1250290533

Item Weight ? : ? 1 pounds

Dimensions ? : ? 5.9 x 0.85 x 8.55 inches

内容介绍

记者、诗人和幸存者约瑟夫-德布雷岑尼（József Debreczeni）首次翻译的大屠杀文学中失落的经典之作

"这是我所见过的最直面集中营恐怖的作品。德布雷岑尼保留了对地狱的全景式描写，既有个人色彩，又有社区特色，还很有氛围"。-纽约时报

“德布雷岑尼的回忆录是对大屠杀文学的重要贡献，这本书扩大了我们对奥斯威辛集中营‘生活’的理解”。-华尔街日报

“一颗文学钻石......一部堪比普里莫-列维的大屠杀回忆录”。-伦敦时报

“它应该成为必读书”。一切都被照亮》的作者乔纳森-萨弗兰-福尔

“及时提醒人们人类对人类的不人道”。-野天鹅》的作者 Jung Chang

约瑟夫-德布雷岑尼（József Debreczeni）是一位多产的匈牙利语记者和诗人，1944 年来到奥斯威辛集中营；

如果他被选中 “向左转”，他的预期寿命大约为 45 分钟。

作为 “幸运儿 ”之一，他被送到了 “右边”，这导致他在一系列集中营中度过了十二个月可怕的监禁和奴役劳动，

最后在 “冷火葬场”--强迫劳动营多恩豪的所谓医院--中被处决。

但是，当苏联和盟军部队逼近集中营时，当地的纳粹指挥官担心直接屠杀可能造成的后果，决定让剩余的囚犯成群地死去，而不是直接把他们送进毒气室。

德布雷岑尼在《冷酷的火葬场》中记录了他的经历，这是有史以来对纳粹主义最严厉、最无情的控诉之一。

这本令人难忘的回忆录以一位杰出记者精确而不带感情色彩的风格呈现，是一本具有无与伦比的文学品质的目击记录。

该书的主题本质上是悲剧性的，但作者的散文令人回味无穷，有时使用讽刺、挖苦甚至尖刻的幽默，迫使读者想象人类在智力上无法理解的环境中的生活。

该书于 1950 年首次以匈牙利文出版，但由于麦卡锡主义、冷战敌意和反犹太主义，从未被翻译成世界语言。

70 多年后，这部几乎被时间遗忘的杰作将以 15 种语言面世，最终在最伟大的大屠杀文学作品中占据应有的位置。

A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time―from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni

"As immediate a confrontation of the horrors of the camps as I’ve ever encountered. It’s also a subtle if startling meditation on what it is to attempt to confront those horrors with words…Debreczeni has preserved a panoptic depiction of hell, at once personal, communal and atmospheric." ―New York Times

"A treasure...Debreczeni’s memoir is a crucial contribution to Holocaust literature, a book that enlarges our understanding of 'life' in Auschwitz." ―Wall Street Journal

"A literary diamond...A holocaust memoir worthy of Primo Levi." ―The Times of London

"It should be required reading." ―Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated

"A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man." ―Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans

József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go “left,” his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the “lucky” ones, he was sent to the “right,” which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the “Cold Crematorium”―the so-called hospital of the forced labor camp D?rnhau, where prisoners too weak to work awaited execution. But as Soviet and Allied troops closed in on the camps, local Nazi commanders―anxious about the possible consequences of outright murder―decided to leave the remaining prisoners to die in droves rather than sending them directly to the gas chambers.

Debreczeni recorded his experiences in Cold Crematorium, one of the harshest, most merciless indictments of Nazism ever written. This haunting memoir, rendered in the precise and unsentimental style of an accomplished journalist, is an eyewitness account of incomparable literary quality. The subject matter is intrinsically tragic, yet the author’s evocative prose, sometimes using irony, sarcasm, and even acerbic humor, compels the reader to imagine human beings in circumstances impossible to comprehend intellectually.

First published in Hungarian in 1950, it was never translated into a world language due to McCarthyism, Cold War hostilities and antisemitism. More than 70 years later, this masterpiece that was nearly lost to time will be available in 15 languages, finally taking its rightful place among the greatest works of Holocaust literature.