Thane Rosenbaum
Autor(a) de The Golems of Gotham: A Novel
About the Author
Thane Rosenbaum teaches courses in human rights, legal humanities, and law and literature at Fordham Law School. He is also an award-winning novelist. His essays appear frequently in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and other national publications. He mostrar mais lives in New York City with his daughter, Basia Tess mostrar menos
Obras de Thane Rosenbaum
Associated Works
Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (2002) — Contribuinte — 66 cópias
The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
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- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 328
- Popularidade
- #72,311
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Resenhas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 26
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- 1
Boy, was this book depressing! It took me forever to get through because of it. Every page I turned, I felt weighed down. When happiness did occur, it felt like a Pyrrhic Victory, it came at such a cost that I wonder was it worth it at the end? Thane Rosenbaum writes beautifully. I wanted to get lost in his prose.
He also expanded the scope because it was not all about the tragic history of the Levins; it discussed the Holocaust seriously even condemning Life is Beautiful as inappropriate. Rosenbaum showed how the Holocaust was the worst inhuman atrocity that can never be forgotten. It seeps into the blood and bones of all who were present. The Golems of Gotham is about humanity's need to forget and desensitizing of tragic events; of putting the past behind and trudging forward.
The only problem is that by ignoring the past, the present numbs causing the future to stifle. Rosenbaum argues the past, no matter how awful, has to be embraced but not all at once and not universally because that would be too much. I liked The Golems of Gotham but I felt it got a little too preachy at the end. This book cannot be dark and fantastical for 97% of it and try to throw genuine therapeutic happiness as its last 3%. Continue to ride that dark wave; drag me kicking and screaming into the shadows with no regrets!… (mais)