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This document provides a summary of Jean Amery's essay "Torture" from his book "At the Mind's Limits". The summary is as follows: 1) Amery visits the Fort Breendonk museum in Belgium, which…Full description

Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man

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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.

On Aging: Revolt and Resignation : Amery, Jean

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On Aging: Revolt and Resignation Hardcover – 22 September 1994
by Jean Amery (Author), John D. Barlow (Translator)
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"On Aging", the first of Jean Amry's books after "At the Mind's Limits", is a powerful and profound book about the process of aging and the limited, but real defenses available to those experiencing the process. Each essay covers a set of issues about growing old. "Existence and the Passage of Time" focuses on the way aging makes the old progressively see time as the essence of their existence. "Stranger to Oneself" is a meditation on the ways the aging are alienated from themselves. "The Look of Others" treats social aging - the realization that it is no longer possible to live according to one's potential or possibilities. "Not to Understand the World Anymore" deals with the loss of the ability to understand new developments in the arts and in the changing values of society. The fifth essay, "To Live with Dying," argues that everyone compromises with death in old age (the time in life when we feel the death that is in us). Here, Amry's intention, as encapsulated by John D. Barlow, becomes most clear: "to disturb easy and cheap compromises and to urge his readers to their own individual acts of defiance and acceptance."


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" ... if Amery's pessimism disparages life, his humanism reaffirms it. By trying to make sense of our existence, Amery 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

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press (22 September 1994)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Almost too real view of aging.Reviewed in the United States on 8 June 2017
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Excellently presented (but depressing).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Intense and Dense Expression of the Aging ExperienceReviewed in the United States on 5 July 2014
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Very intense and dense expression of the aging experience that is not for the faint of heart. He was relativity young when he composed this work (his 50's) and knowing how he chose voluntary death a decade or so later is very revealing as one reads his words.

Some aspects were hard to follow, perhaps due to translation, but overall Jean Amery puts often elegant ways of expressing the reality of aging that often clarifys my own experience.

But I try not read to this when my mood is already low; while at other times it is communing with a kindred spirit

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3.0 out of 5 stars Exceedingly DepressingReviewed in the United States on 18 March 2014
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I bought this book based on a review of another book that mentioned Jean Amery. My opinion of Mr. Amery's writing is considerably less positive than that of the reviewer who led me to the book.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Grim and somewhat disappointingReviewed in the United States on 7 June 2010
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This book is a compilation of several radio lectures that the German- or Austrian-born author (the name is a pseudonym) delivered over French radio in, if memory serves, the 1950s. I confess to have made it only through the first section and part of the second. The tone is extremely bleak, the prose is difficult (all French prose defies easy translation, IMHO, and comes out sounding imprecise and windy), and the ultimate message is pretty unrewarding: It turns out that old age is even worse than you feared! Don't pick up this book looking for any solace.

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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
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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press (23 March 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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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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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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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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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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	At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities by  Jean Améry,   Sidney Rosenfeld (Translator),   Stella P. Rosenfeld (Translator)  4.31 avg rating — 1,094 ratings — published 1966 — 52 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death by  Jean Améry  4.08 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1976 — 31 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	On Aging: Revolt and Resignation by  Jean Améry  4.23 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1968 — 17 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: A Portrait of a Simple Man by  Jean Améry,   Adrian Nathan West (translator)  3.45 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left by  Jean Améry,   Alvin H. Rosenfeld (Foreword),   Lars Fischer (Translator)  4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars

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