#Jean Claude Grumberg

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74. The Most Precious of Cargoes, by Jean-Claude Grumberg

Owned: No, library Page count: 102 My summary: Once upon a time, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife in a cottage in the forest. War rages outside of their little home, but hunger and cold are their more constant companions. The woodcutter’s wife prays for a child, and one day her prayers are answered. A train rumbles through the forest, and from a window falls a child wrapped in a shawl. On the train, a Jewish father protects one of his children the only way he knows how. It’s an act of desperation - he may never see her again, but she might live. Their train is speeding to a place of death. He knows few will survive. But he has to hope. My rating: 4/5 My commentary:

This was a completely random pull. I saw it on the shelf and thought it looked interesting, picked it up, and read it in one session because it's not particularly long. It's a strange little book, and I don't mean that as an insult. Half fable, half horrible history. Horrible, of course, because it's about the Holocaust, and the desperation of those who struggled to survive it. Its terrors are spoken of matter-of-factly, with some lyrical and poetical language - I have to commend the translator their skilful adaptation. It's a fairytale indeed, but not one to tell your children, perhaps. Not until they're old enough to understand.

One of the things I found interesting about this story was the pervading sense of sadness that permeated it. Sadness and, indeed, anger. Grumberg tells us in an afterword that, while the characters in this book are fictional, the cargo trains it details were real, and both his father and grandfather were on them. From what I could find about his life (most detailed sources were in French) his father and probably grandfather did not survive. Grumberg, born in 1939, was saved by the Children's House of Moissac, a house that saved nearly 500 Jewish children from the Nazis. This history weighs heavy on a tale of a child saved and sheltered from the Holocaust, growing up without a birth family and knowing nothing of her culture. This is a story of tragedy and loss, but also a tale of family. The girl loses her birth family (only her father survives the war, and declines to be part of her life even after finding her again as he is so broken by all he has seen) but gains an adoptive family, and the adults around her fight for her life, two even sacrificing themselves for her. The child is loved, and cherished, and sheltered. She is also cut off from her heritage. It's a bittersweet sting in the tale, softened by the clear love and adoration her mother shows to her.

But Grumberg too is angry at the tides of bigotry and oppression that slaughtered so many people around him. He shows it through the characters who seek to capture the girl, who want to deliver her to the same fate as her mother and twin brother, in the asides showing the father (who now shears hair in a concentration camp) and everything he has been through. The poetic language does not hide the brutal reality of what happened to all of these people. His afterword where he contextualises the story in his reality is brimming with pain. It's a moving, evocative version of an apocalyptic event in human history, and it makes for some rough, but necessary, reading.

Next up, to Victorian England, and a story of intrigue across the boundaries of class.

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Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve in The Last Métro (François Truffaut, 1980)

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard, Maurice Risch, Sabine Haudepin, Heinz Bennent. Screenplay: François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean-Claude Grumberg. Cinematography: Néstor Almendros. Production design: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko. Film editing: Martine Barraqué. Music: Georges Delerue. François Truffaut said in interviews that The Last Métro is a kind of companion film to Day for Night (1973), his behind-the-camera account of making a movie. Truffaut, who was born in 1932, was only a boy during the war but he recalls the theater -- both the movie theater and the legitimate stage -- as a kind of refuge from hardship, the hunger and cold brought about by wartime rationing. People gathered in theaters for communal warmth. The story is principally about an actress, Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve), who is trying to keep the theater that was run before the war by her husband, Lucas (Heinz Bennent), open. Lucas, who is Jewish, is rumored to have fled to America, but in fact he is hiding in the cellar of the theater while Marion, with the help of the rest of the regular company, stages a play. The director, Jean-Loup Cottins (Jean Poiret), is working from the notes Lucas made on the play before his disappearance. Cottins has his own dangerous secret: He's gay, and hence subject to persecution by the occupying Nazis. A new leading man, Bernard Granger (Gérard Depardieu), joins the company, and inevitably a tension develops between him and Marion. Meanwhile, Lucas has figured out ways to listen in on rehearsals and make suggestions to Marion that she passes along to Cottins, who is unaware of Lucas's hiding place. Marion also has the difficulty of dealing with the authorities, who could close the theater at any moment, especially when the influential critic Daxiat (Jean-Louis Richard), a collaborator with the Nazis, takes an interest in her and the play. What takes place on stage, namely the sexual tension between the characters played by Marion and Bernard, often mirrors what's happening backstage. The Last Métro is a well-crafted movie -- Truffaut wrote the screenplay with Suzanne Schiffman -- that was France's entry for the best foreign-film Oscar and won a raft of the French César Awards, including one for cinematographer Nestor Almendros.

#The Last Métro #François Truffaut #Gérard Depardieu #Catherine Deneuve

[oanthore]

Ce qu’il y a d’inadmissible dans la mort des autres, c’est qu’on s’y habitue.

Sabri Megueddem - Jacqueline, Jacqueline de Jean-Claude Grumberg

#lecture #esprit #vie #mort #morale

[carolemm]

Ce conte est un condensé d’émotions et d’amour en quelque centaines de pages.

C’est vite lu mais sans doute assez fort pour laisser une trace indélébile.

Impossible de déflorer le sujet ! Vous comprendrez facilement de quelle période historique il est question. Dans son épilogue, Jean-Claude Grumberg nous invite à deviner s’il s’agit d’une histoire vraie…

« Voilà la seule chose qui mérite d'exister dans les histoires comme dans la vie vraie. L'amour, l'amour offert aux enfants, aux siens comme à ceux des autres. L'amour qui fait que, malgré tout ce qui existe, et tout ce qui n'existe pas, l'amour qui fait que la vie continue. »

« Elle n'avait pas d'enfant à nourrir certes, mais pas non plus d'enfant à chérir. »

« Nul ne peut rien gagner en ce bas monde sans consentir à y perdre un petit quelque chose, fût-ce la vie d'un être cher ou la sienne propre. »

« Elle dort notre pauvre bûcheronne, elle dort, son bébé bien serré dans ses bras, elle repose du sommeil des justes, elle dort là-haut, bien plus haut que le paradis des pauvres bûcherons et des pauvres bûcheronnes, bien plus haut encore que l'Eden des heureux de ce monde, elle dort tout là-haut là-haut, dans le jardin réservé aux dieux et aux mères. »

« Elle se sent devenue mère, à la fois heureuse et mortellement inquiète. »

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[mysterydark]

«Ορίστε, αυτό είναι το μόνο πράγμα που αξίζει να υπάρχει στις ιστορίες και στην αληθινή ζωή. Η αγάπη, η αγάπη που δίνουμε στα παιδιά, τα δικά μας και των άλλων. Η αγάπη που κάνει, παρ’ όλα όσα υπάρχουν και δεν υπάρχουν, η αγάπη που κάνει τη ζωή να συνεχίζεται.»

Jean-Claude Grumberg | Η πιο πολύτιμη πραμάτεια • Ένα παραμύθι | μτφρ.: Ρούλα Γεωργακοπούλου | εκδόσεις Πόλις

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Termina la temporada en Sala Guirigai con una comedia y una jornada de puertas abiertas

El viernes 30 de junio y el sábado 1 de julio a las 21h. vuelven a Sala Guirigai los mallorquines ESTUDI ZERO con la comedia “Los Otros” del autor francés Jean-Claude Grumberg (1939, París), un provocador considerado “el autor trágico más divertido de su generación”. “Los otros” presenta tres piezas cortas que reflexionan sobre el racismo, el turismo, el esnobismo y el conformismo en la sociedad.…

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Ένα πολύ ωραίο «παραμύθι» το οποίο δεν είναι μία απλή ιστορία, αλλά ο καθρέφτης μίας φρικιαστικά αισχρής περιόδου για την ανθρωπότητα με ένα πολύ ωραίο μήνυμα αγάπης στο τέλος. «Ορίστε, αυτό είναι το μόνο πράγμα που αξίζει να υπάρχει στις ιστορίες και στην αληθινή ζωή. Η αγάπη, η αγάπη που δίνουμε στα παιδιά, τα δικά μας και των άλλων. Η αγάπη που κάνει, παρ’ όλα όσα υπάρχουν και δεν υπάρχουν, η αγάπη που κάνει τη ζωή να συνεχίζεται»

«Δεν μπορεί κανείς να κερδίσει τίποτα σ’ αυτή τη ζωή αν δεν δεχθεί να χάσει κάτι τις, ακόμη κι αν αυτό είναι η ζωή ενός αγαπημένου ανθρώπου ή η δική του»

#φιλοσοφία #λογοτεχνία #ιστορία #ολοκαύτωμα #Jean Claude Grumberg

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Eden Is West (Eden à l'Ouest), Costa-Gavras (2009)

#Costa Gavras #Jean Claude Grumberg #Riccardo Scamarcio #Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos #Léa Wiazemsky #Marisha Triantafyllidou #Constantine Markoulakis #Éric Caravaca #Mona Achache #Alexandre Bancel #Anny Loulou #Bruno Lochet #Patrick Blossier #Armand Amar #Julien Baril #Yannick Kergoat #2009

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The Singer family told in pictures

The Singer family told in pictures

(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 09 – Hazel Karr, grandson of three great Yiddish novelists, the brothers Isaac Bashevis, Nobel Prize for Literature, Israel Joshua, author of ‘The Ashkenazi brothers’, and Esther Kreitman, author of ‘Deborah’ , tells us through his paintings the story of an extraordinary family of writers in an exhibition that opens on November 17 at the Center d’Art et Culture Juive in Paris,…

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#art #Batsheva #Centre #Esther-Kreitman #Hazel-Karr #Isaac-Bashevis #Israel-Joshua #Jean-Claude-Grumberg #Jewish-Culture #Lola-Fuchs #Maurice #memoir #show #singer #Square

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Jean-Claude Grumberg

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Jean-Claude Grumberg.

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La emblemática compañía mallorquina Estudi Zero Teatre vuelve a Sala Guirigai con una comedia los días 30 de junio y 1 de julio

El próximo viernes 30 de junio y sábado 1 de julio a las 21h, la compañía Estudi Zero Teatre sube a las tablas de Sala Guirigai (C/Virgen del Pilar 2, Los Santos de Maimona) con una comedia aguda de Jean-Claude Grumberg, considerado “el autor trágico más divertido de su generación”. Una obra concebida en 3 piezas cortas que reflexionan sobre el racismo, el turismo, el esnobismo y el conformismo…

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[nadirakkus]

Два самых важных дня в твоей жизни: день, когда ты появился на свет, и день, когда понял, зачем. BUGÜN 26 TEMMUZ.. BENİM DOĞUM GÜNÜM.. AZ DA OLSA İYİ BİLİNEN ÖNEMLİ BİR YETENEĞİMİ YANİ OYUNCULUK YETENEĞİMİ BUGÜNDEN ALDIĞIMI DÜŞÜNÜYORUM..AYRICA SİZE BUGÜN DOĞAN JASON STATHAM ( HAPPY BIRTHDAY @jasonstatham ) HAKKINDA BİLGİLER PAYLAŞACAĞIM.. VE.. İŞTE 26 TEMMUZ'DA DOĞAN OYUNCULAR: . Jason Statham Sandra Bullock Engin Altan Düzyatan Kate Beckinsale Çetin Altay Uğur Yıldıran Metin Çekmez Şükrü Üçüncü Kevin Spacey Stanley Kubrick Helen Mirren Vildan Atasever Olivia Williams Frédéric Diefenthal Alice Taglioni Taylor Momsen Jeremy Piven Cress Williams Elizabeth Gillies Jason Robards Monica Raymund Blake Edwards Kevin Chapman Dito Montiel Spencer Wilding Susan George Bianca Santos David Heyman Megan Ketch Emanuele Crialese Alice Isaaz Mick Jagger Peter Hyams Caitlin Gerard Arthur Dupont Francesca Ciardi Eve Myles Nana Visitor Hemky Madera Jean-Pierre Améris Dimitri Storoge Vladimir Cruz Leticia Brédice Hallie Meyers-Shyer Chez Starbuck Yoshi Oida Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre Jeremy Thomas Francia Raisa Jonny Pasvolsky Jimmy Karz Bruna Papandrea Paul Gallico Roger Taylor James Best Virginia Gilmore Tom McGowan Jean-Claude Grumberg Robert Hirsch Vlas Parlapanides Gabe Klinger Gaetano Bruno Vince Rizzi Biao Yuen Kiel Martin Barak Hardley Tibor Molnar Arnd Klawitter Aton Soumache Carlito Olivero sa Valeria Pivato Hamish Clark Santo Loquasto Harold Kasket Gina Teixeira Sheena M. Joyce George Bernard Shaw Lars Hanson Marcel Carpentier . #happybirthday #jasonstatham #and #me #nadirakkus #nadirakkusdesign #leiurus #26temmuz #26july #aslanburcu #aslanburcuyum #aslanburcuyuz #aslanerkegi #aslankadını #aslanburcuerkeği #aslankadini #aslankadıni #aslanburcuerkeği #aslanburcukadını #aslanburcuerkegi #aslanburcukadini #aslanburcuaşk #aslanburcugünlükburçyorumu #aslanburcuolmak #jasonstatham_news #jasonstathamfans #jasonstatham #happybirthdaytoyou #happybirthdayme #happybirthdayme #mybirthday #birthday (Nadir Akkuş Design / Leiurus Wooden Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgfKdkOsN4-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[justforbooks]

Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό, σ’ ένα μεγάλο δάσος ζούσε ένας φτωχός ξυλοκόπος με τη φτωχιά γυναίκα του. Όχι όχι όχι όχι όχι, μην ανησυχείτε, δεν πρόκειται καθόλου για τον Κοντορεβυθούλη! Όπως εσείς, έτσι κι εγώ απεχθάνομαι αυτή τη γελοία ιστορία. Πού ακούστηκε οι γονείς να παρατάνε τα παιδιά τους επειδή δεν έχουν να τα θρέψουν; Έλεος... Μέσα σ’ αυτό το μεγάλο δάσος λοιπόν επικρατούσε μεγάλη πείνα και πολύ κρύο. Ιδίως τον χειμώνα. Το καλοκαίρι μια τρομερή ζέστη έπεφτε σ’ αυτό το δάσος κι έδιωχνε το πολύ κρύο. Η πείνα απεναντίας ήταν σταθερή, προπάντων τα χρόνια που γύρω από αυτό το δάσος μαινόταν ο παγκόσμιος πόλεμος. Ο παγκόσμιος πόλεμος, ναι ναι ναι ναι ναι. Jean-Claude Grumberg

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Ο Jean-Claude Grumberg γεννήθηκε στο Παρίσι το 1939. Ο πατέρας του και ο παππούς του εκτοπίστηκαν στα γερμανικά στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης και δεν επέστρεψαν ποτέ. Θεατρικός συγγραφέας (έχει γράψει πάνω από τριάντα έργα και έχει τιμηθεί έξι φορές με το βραβείο Molière), σεναριογράφος (έχει συνεργαστεί, μεταξύ άλλων, με τον Φρανσουά Τρυφώ και τον Κώστα Γαβρά), έχει γράψει επίσης μελέτες, βιογραφίες και παιδικά βιβλία. Έχει τιμηθεί με το μεγάλο Βραβείο Θεάτρου της Γαλλικής Ακαδημίας για το έργο του Zone libre, με τα μεγάλα βραβεία SACD και Société des Gens de Lettres για το σύνολο του έργου του, και με το βραβείο César καλύτερου σεναρίου για το Amen του Κώστα Γαβρά. Το βιβλίο Η πιο πολύτιμη πραμάτεια τιμήθηκε με το βραβείο αναγνωστών L’Express/BFMTV και το Ειδικό Βραβείο Βιβλιοπωλών.

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