Diary of the Fallby Michel Laub
translated by Margaret Jull Costa
~post by Ben
Auschwitz.
It’s a word that has come to mean so much more than the place it was meant to represent. Michel Laub’s The Diary of the Fall, approaches the complexity of living as a Jew in the twenty-first century with tenderness and intention. Laub has created a novel which guides us through the fallout of the Holocaust through the deeply personal relationships between a grandfather, a father, and a son in Brazil, capturing the rawness and paradox of the tragedies that fill our lives.
In the same way that venom works long after the bite, The Diary of the Fall is a slow-working and affecting novel. This is not to say that its pacing lags. Quite contrarily, Laub leads us feet first into a singular and defining moment in the narrator’s life as he…
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