Jean Améry Knihy

Essays discuss Jewish identity and the implications of the Holocaust

In insgesamt sechs Essays – mit den Koordinaten Frühe Weigerung, Die scheinbaren Scheinfragen, Debakel, Existenzsorgen, Expeditionen jenseits des Rheins und Strukturen überschrieben – führt Améry diese Selbstbefragung durch. Dabei greifen die Texte ineinander und fügen sich zu einer Auto- wie Zeitbiographie. Die Unmeisterlichen Wanderjahre sind auch der Teil der Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Jean Améry, die bei Klett-Cotta erschien.

"... if Améry’s pessimism disparages life, his humanism reaffirms it. By trying to make sense of our existence, Améry reminds us of why human life is precious." ―Alan Wolfe, The New Republic "The pessimistic tone of this book is provocative and should interest students and faculty involved with issues of aging." ―Choice "The writing challenges and searches, trying to cut beneath conventional language and expectations, seeking to delineate qualities of lived experience in their most essential dimensions." ―Contemporary Gerontology Five profoundly moving and courageously honest essays about the process of aging by the famous Belgian author of At the Mind’s Limits. Each essay covers a set of issues about growing old, from the way aging makes the old progressively see time as the essence of their existence to the argument that everyone compromises with death in old age (the time in life when we feel the death that is in us).

On Suicide is neither a defense of suicide nor an invitation to assisted suicide, but an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide. It is also a strident defense of the freedom of the individual and a plea for the recognition of the fact that we belong to ourselves before belonging to another person, or an institution, nation, or religion, and that our right to choose to end our life can have priority over social entanglements and biological destiny. Book jacket.

Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love. Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging poor bungler Charles Bovary, the pathetic, laughable, cuckolded husband of Madame Bovary and the heartless creation of Gustave Flaubert. As a once-promising novelist who was tortured by the Nazis and survived a year in Auschwitz, author Jean Améry had a particular sympathy for the lived experience of vulnerability, affliction, and suffering, and in this book—available in English for the first time—he asserts the moral claims of Dr. Bovary. What results is a moving paean to the humanity of Charles Bovary and to the supreme value of love.

-This is a collection of essays by world-famous author, Jean Amery, translated into English for the first time. -Although written prior to his death in 1978, their insights are as comptemporary and fresh as ever given the current political climate. -Amery's works have been a mainstay of IUP's Holocaust list of decades. /