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Published to acclaim and impressive sales?50,000 copies?in 1938, this is one of the earliest pieces of Holocaust fiction. The epistolary novel reveals the rising tide of evil in Germany through the correspondence between two friends, one of whom is living in San Francisco, the other in Berlin.
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The New York Times Book Review This modern story is perfection itself. It is the most effective indictment of Nazism to apper in fiction.
Kurt Vennegut A tale already known and profoundly appreciated by members of my generation. It is to our part in World War II what Uncle Tom's Cabin was to the Civil War.
Variety A marvel of a tale, with an "Oh, wow" ending.
Publisher's Weekly Address Unknown serves not only as a reminder of Nazi horrors but as a cautionary tle in light of current racial, ethnic, and nationalistic intolerance.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) The story is akin to the sly plot twists of O. Henry. Believe me, Address Unknown will leave you breathless with admiration.
Kurt Vennegut A tale already known and profoundly appreciated by members of my generation. It is to our part in World War II what Uncle Tom's Cabin was to the Civil War.
Variety A marvel of a tale, with an "Oh, wow" ending.
Publisher's Weekly Address Unknown serves not only as a reminder of Nazi horrors but as a cautionary tle in light of current racial, ethnic, and nationalistic intolerance.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) The story is akin to the sly plot twists of O. Henry. Believe me, Address Unknown will leave you breathless with admiration.
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This book is something of a publishing sensation in France, where I read it. Perhaps I expected too much, but I am a little disappointed. This is a short story imagined by an American woman writer living in California in 1938. One can certainly excuse her for not being completely accurate about Germany, writing in San Francisco in the Thirties: for the period, she makes her point beautifully and tersely. But now, 60 years later, I am amazed that so many people take this book as literal truth. Nazism was no nicer than what is shown here, but I don't think it expressed itself exactly in the way it is written here. (To get a much more accurate feel, I recommend the haunting "Reunion" by Fred Uhlman, or "Wartime Lies" by Louis Begley, two Jewish writers who were there.) Almost at every page, I was jarred by small inaccuracies: using images of Berlin in writing to a man settling in Bavaria, for instance; the theatrical way in which Max's sister escapes to Martin's newly-bought Schloss, which as straight out of Boy's Own adventures; the unselfconscious, didactic way in which Martin's letters show him won over to Nazism (read by contrast Albert Speer's "Inside the Third Reich" to understand how a brilliant intellectual can be seduced by Hitler). Martin's letter explaining how he abandoned Max's sister stretches credulity -- no-one remotely intelligent would have confessed to such behaviour, even to a former friend he was trying to persuade to stop writing. Max's revenge is nicely plotted: it's a clever idea, and intellectually I can see how it would work, for instance in a stage play; but I don't really believe it would have worked out that way (it could be argued convincingly that it was a Jewish plot.) My problem is that at no time do I really believe in the characters. (Max is not a convincing art dealer; the passages in his and Martin's letters about the sales he makes don't sound true; Martin refers to Max's judaism with admiration in his first letter, so that his later about-turn is unbelievable: a man that cultured ought to be a lot more ideological when he recants; Martin has lived abroad; he can't have the reactions of an unsophisticated German burgher.) As a period short story, this is a nice if slight, work. But it would be a mistake to see it as historic evidence of how Jews and Germans fared in the Thirties. It's well-meaning but inaccurate.
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What did it mean to be Jewish in the late 1930's in Nazi Germany? How powerful was Hitler's fascist brainwashing of the German race? How quickly did he influence the German people ?
In an instant this book answers these questions and a great deal more regarding the Jews and Nazi Germany. It is a concise and compelling compilation of letters between a Jew in the States and a German returned from the States to live in Germany.
Martin, the German, after voicing initial hesitation, succumbs to the temptation of following Hitler and rejecting his Jewish friend and business partner in the process.
What is particularly disturbing is that it is clear from the outset that he is an intelligent, open-minded and well-educated individual. If even he is totally taken in by Hitler and his regime, what chance did those of a lesser education and a lesser quality of life have in the face of Hitler and his positive promises for the future ? They would have been swept along by his current of hope in an instant, even if that hope involved the elimination of minorities in the process.
Only much later could the majority of Germans step back and realise the true implications of the Hitler regime. 'Address Unknown' captures this and much more in an exchange of but a few letters. The simplicitiy of the work emphasises the horrors of Hitler.
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Eine ganz kurze Geschichte, die sich innerhalb einer halben Stunde lesen läßt - die es aber in sich hat: der fiktive Briefwechsel zwischen einem amerikanischen Juden und seinem zunehmend fanatisierten deutschen Geschäftspartner in der NS-Zeit; mit einem überraschenden Ende.
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A simple book for simple minds
This review is based on the French edition, "Inconnu à cette adresse"
The book tells a simple story with the characters conveniently painted in black and white -... Lesen Sie weiter...
The book tells a simple story with the characters conveniently painted in black and white -... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 19 Monaten von Thomas Dunskus veröffentlicht
Adressat unbekannt - eine Rezension
Dieses Buch steckt voller tieferer Hintergründe und ist, obwohl recht kurz, äßerst empfehlenswert. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Mai 2003 veröffentlicht
UNglaubliches Buch mit Signalwirkung
Die Autorin beweist eindrucksvoll, dass Bücher über die Verbrechen des Dritten Reiches nicht zwingend in Geschichtunterricht enden müssen. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Februar 2003 von Trulli
Please , don't lose it!
I discovered this book in France and I read the french version.I satayed one week completly disturbed by the book.First I started to read and I couldn't stop until the end. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. März 2000 von Teresa Paixão
the horrors of the Hitler reign in a few letters
I was so impressed with this book. It's only a few pages, letters between two partners, one a Jew in America and one who becomes a Nazi in Germany. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Juni 1999 von lisatheratgirl
disturbing
This is a strong story. A simple correspondence between best friends slowly makes us the witness of one of those episodes in human life that we hope never to experience: the loss... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Mai 1999 von E. G. Tolon
The memory of this book still haunts me.
I read this book at least sixty years ago, when it was first published; still in my teens, I was horrified and fascinated. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Touching and Timeless Book
I can see why this book caused a sensation when it was first printed. It took me less than a half hour to read it but it will stay with me for years. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. November 1997 veröffentlicht
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