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- In the first biography of this fascinating figure, Sander Gilman tells the story of Becker's life in five worlds: the Polish-Jewish middle-class neighborhood where Becker was born; the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camps where Becker spent his childhood; the socialist order of the GDR, which Becker idealized, resisted, and finally was forced to leave; the isolated world of West Berlin, where he settled down to continue his writing; and the new, reunified Germany, for which Becker served as...
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Jurek Becker ( German: [ˈjuː.ʁɛk ˈbɛ.kɐ] ⓘ, probably 30 September 1937 – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films.
Jurek Becker, the author of the first comic novel on the Holocaust, Jacob the Liar, and other highly acclaimed works, was one of West Germany’s most famous exiles from the GDR.
Jurek Becker's "Jakob the Liar" offers a profound and moving portrayal of life in a Jewish ghetto during World War II. Through its compelling characters and gripping storyline, the novel explores themes of hope, deception, and the indomitable spirit of the human soul.
Jacob the Liar is a 1969 novel written by the East German Jewish author Jurek Becker. The German original title is Jakob der Lügner (pronounced [ˈjaːkɔp deːɐ̯ ˈlyːɡnɐ] ⓘ). Becker was awarded the Heinrich-Mann Prize (1971) and the Charles Veillon Prize (1971) after the publication of his bestseller.
- Jurek Becker, Leila Vennewitz
- 1969
Awarded Germany's prestigious Heinrich Mann Prize for fiction and in a new translation by Leila Vennewitz, Jakob the Liar is a masterpiece of Kafkaesque comedy which unfolds with the impact of a timeless folk legend. 256 pages, Paperback.
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Oct 8, 2018 · Hope as the elixir of life: Jurek Becker's novel about the life of Jews in a ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland is gripping and melancholic, but also full of humor. It's a story of...
Dec 15, 2003 · Sander Gilman's story of Jurek Becker is biography of the highest order, a portrait of an extraordinarily gifted artist whose hope and courage are manifested in his legacy as one of the...