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At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities Kindle Edition
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"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain. . .all the way to its stoic conclusion." —Primo Levi
"The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true." —Irving Howe, New Republic
"This remarkable memoir. . .is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience. With the ear of a poet and the eye of a novelist, Amery vividly communicates the wonder of a philosopher—a wonder here aroused by the 'dark riddle' of the Nazi regime and its systematic sadism." —Jim Miller, Newsweek
"Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world. The shame of destruction cannot be erased. Trust in the world, which already collapsed in part at the first blow, but in the end, under torture, fully, will not be regained. That one's fellow man was experienced as the antiman remains in the tortured person as accumulated horror. It blocks the view into a world in which the principle of hope rules. One who was martyred is a defenseless prisoner of fear. It is fear that henceforth reigns over him." —Jean Amery
At the Mind's Limits is the story of one man's incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival—mental, moral, and physical—through the enormity of the Holocaust. Above all, this masterful record of introspection tells of a young Viennese intellectual's fervent vision of human nature and the betrayal of that vision.
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[Jean Amery was] one of the few authentic voices on the Holocaust. -- W. G. Sebald
Jean Amery's experience of torture at the hands of the Gestapo remains the locus classicus on the subject. Speaking out on behalf of the hitherto silent victims, Amery was one of the first - along with his fellow Auschwitz inmate Primo Levi - to universalize his ordeal ... his witness has never been more necessary than today. -- Daniel Johnson ― TLS
These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain ... all the way to its stoic conclusion. -- Primo Levi
About the Author
Jean Amery (1912-1978) was born in Vienna and in 1938 emigrated to Belgium, where he joined the Resistance Movement. He was caught by the Germans in 1943, tortured by the SS, and survived the next two years in the concentration camps. He was author of seven volumes of essays and two novels. He committed suicide in 1978.
Sidney Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Professor of German at Oberlin College, and Stella P. Rosenfeld, Ph.D., are cotranslators of Radical Humanism by Jean Amery and Jewish Life in Germany edited by M. Richarz.
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ASIN : B07KRZ3NR3
Publisher : Indiana University Press (23 March 2009)
Language : English
File size : 365 KB
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Print length : 128 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 0253211735Best Sellers Rank: 227,316 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)27 in Judaism Textbooks
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5.0 out of 5 stars A troubling record of human history that should be compulsory for every one of usReviewed in Canada on 6 August 2016
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This is a book that should be compulsory reading in high schools around the world. It is a troubling record of a half-blood 'Jew's' experiences during WWII. His discussions about how we are, in 2016 now, failing the lessons of Auschwitz and too many other places, are timely. The only failure is for this 'intellect' to have drawn in any discussions about the ignorance of international law that allowed the tragedies he witnessed to have happened in the first place.
A troubling read, difficult to absorb in parts, but worth the lessons it presents.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, fatalisticReviewed in the United States on 6 October 2015
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An incredible book on the concentration camp experience. As brilliant as it is, it does have
a fatalistic streak, which is anyhow bracing. He does not pretend that there will
ever be anything like 'closure.' He as well addresses the quandary of such an advanced
nation as Germany degenerating to the extent that it did.
Knowledge that the author committed suicide within a few years of the re-issue is very sad,
but in truth, going through what
this man went through would have been just about impossible to overcome.
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Ingeborg van Geldermalsen
5.0 out of 5 stars The best about holocaustReviewed in Spain on 2 September 2016
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Amery is an analist and he writes very well, clear and to the point. His study on terror, torture and identity belongs to the best written ever and should be obligatory reading for everybody....
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Scott Baker
5.0 out of 5 stars AstoundingReviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2013
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I first read a library copy of this collection some years ago and I had to own it. The prose still cuts and blisters as I remember it. Amery is a very fine writer who, perhaps because of the historic nature of his writings, will be wrongly catalogued and typecast with other "survivor literature". There is a message that transcends Auschwitz that places him with Primo Levi, not just as a fellow survivor, but as a genuine world voice. Amery should be known and read more and admitted in the canon of the immortals.
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Lazy Kipper
5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply movingReviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2017
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A classic of the Holocaust along the same lines as Primo Levi\s work.
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