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How can one tell of the Holocaust. There have been many volumes written, containing facts, statistics, pictures, and personal accounts. But the sheer horror of it often paralyses one's reactions to: stop I can't stand it read any more and in the end it is too grotesque to be real. David Grossman, using fantasy and symbolism and humor made it more real for me than anything I have ever read or heard about on the subject.

In the first chapter he used his consummate skill to evoke it, by being able to `get into the head' of a 9 year old Israeli boy whose immigrant parents would not tell him what the Holocaust was. Momik is a clever nine year old, trying to figure out what happened `Over There', and his Holocaust survivor friends and relatives are funny and, at the same time, infinitely sad. He and his escapades capture your heart.

The chapter on Bruno is an allegory of resistance to the slaughter of the Jews, in particular Bruno Schulz, a gifted Polish-Jewish writer. In this tale, he escapes the Nazis by becoming and swimming with the salmon, Grossman's symbol for the `wandering Jews'.

The third chapter is about Wasserman, a Jew in a concentration camp, who had written children's stories before the war which happened to be the favorites of the camp's commandant when he was a child. Wasserman had the statistical distinction, out of the millions who were slaughtered, of being the one improbable person who could not be killed, either by gas chamber or pistol. It is filled with dark humor as Wasserman becomes the Scheherazade of the commandant, continuing his stories each night, with the request that he be killed after each recital. But of course he couldn't be killed.

The final chapter is an encyclopedia, in which the title - See Under: Love is a cross reference. I couldn't finish this chapter. It was too awful for me.

This book is bold, poetic and passionate. I consider this the best, the most important book I have ever read.


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See Under LOVE A Novel David Grossman Betsy Rosenberg Books Reviews

No hassel ordered what my son wanted for Christmas and received it
quickly and painlessly and I will remember that
Difficult to read. I still haven't gotten through it after 3 weeks.
This book was a recent selection for our book club, which generally numbers about twelve very smart participants. When the email reminder went out about our upcoming discussion of this book, all but four or five replied that they couldn't attend for one reason or another, a record for our group. Were the absentees absent because of other commitments, or because they couldn't make heads or tails of what they were reading? Few of us made it all the way through.
Ok
I don't think I am qualified to write a review of this piece of art. Think Toni Morrison on LSD, or maybe Falkner writing in Hebrew as Isaiah, composing in a way never before conceived, about of all things, The Hollocaust! I guess this most twisted example of human depravity requires such a book. However, if I had not read Mr. Grossman's beautiful love narrative, " Someone to Run With" I would not have known at first if it was a work of genius or a tale told by an idiot, and might not have hung in there long enough to declare it the former - 5 stars! However, a second reading may be required to understand the nuances.
I am a survivor of Auschwitz and 5 additional camps. I have one son, born in Israel. Reading; I was thinking that I am reading my own autobiography.
This is not a book for the casual reader and I had no idea of the roller coaster ride it was was going to be. It is dense, disturbing, convoluted and delves into the territory that is thought of as "magic realism". Primarily, it deals with the holocaust, not a pleasant topic at any time. But I have never read anything that ever comes close to this writer's deep, complex and highly imaginative world view.

The book is divided into four sections. The first is set in Israel in 1959 with a 9-year-old boy named Momik. His parents and everyone around him are holocaust survivors. They are emotionally scarred and never discuss the topic with him. But he hears whispers, and phases like "the Nazi beast" make him think there is an animal of that name. This section is written in a stream of consciousness inner dialog and really felt like it was coming from a young boy. His sentences are long, some of the taking up a whole page, but they are imaginatively conceived and paint a picture of the inner workings of his mind.

The next section is harder to understand. By now, Momik is grown and has a wife and a baby. During this time, he is researching the death of Bruno Schulz, a Polish-Jewish writer who was killed by the Nazis. There is a lot of magic realism here and the author goes a little wild with Momik's searching under the sea and observing an underwater unreal world.

The third section was, to me the most interesting as well as the most horrifying. This is a flashback about Momik's great uncle, Wassernan, a writer of children's tales, who we first meet as a confused elderly old man in the first section. Here, he has just been transported to a concentration camp and is confronted with a Nazi commander who was acquainted with his captive's early writing. The Nazi commander keeps the writer alive so that he can create a story with the same characters that he had developed so many years ago. What follows is a Sheherizade tale with a twist because lines of power get blurred between the Nazi and the Jew.

The last section is a dictionary/encyclopedia, where the author elaborates in great detail on a variety of words and phrases. Here is where his imagination really soars. The one word I can use to describe this is "fascinating".

This is the most complex book I have ever read. I loved it and hated it and couldn't put it down. It took me to places inside myself that I never knew existed. And it made me admire the absolute genius of the author. Of course, it is not for everyone. I just know that, even though there was much of it I didn't understand, I was standing in the shadow of greatness. And I will never forget it.
See Under Love

How can one tell of the Holocaust. There have been many volumes written, containing facts, statistics, pictures, and personal accounts. But the sheer horror of it often paralyses one's reactions to stop I can't stand it read any more and in the end it is too grotesque to be real. David Grossman, using fantasy and symbolism and humor made it more real for me than anything I have ever read or heard about on the subject.

In the first chapter he used his consummate skill to evoke it, by being able to `get into the head' of a 9 year old Israeli boy whose immigrant parents would not tell him what the Holocaust was. Momik is a clever nine year old, trying to figure out what happened `Over There', and his Holocaust survivor friends and relatives are funny and, at the same time, infinitely sad. He and his escapades capture your heart.

The chapter on Bruno is an allegory of resistance to the slaughter of the Jews, in particular Bruno Schulz, a gifted Polish-Jewish writer. In this tale, he escapes the Nazis by becoming and swimming with the salmon, Grossman's symbol for the `wandering Jews'.

The third chapter is about Wasserman, a Jew in a concentration camp, who had written children's stories before the war which happened to be the favorites of the camp's commandant when he was a child. Wasserman had the statistical distinction, out of the millions who were slaughtered, of being the one improbable person who could not be killed, either by gas chamber or pistol. It is filled with dark humor as Wasserman becomes the Scheherazade of the commandant, continuing his stories each night, with the request that he be killed after each recital. But of course he couldn't be killed.

The final chapter is an encyclopedia, in which the title - See Under Love is a cross reference. I couldn't finish this chapter. It was too awful for me.

This book is bold, poetic and passionate. I consider this the best, the most important book I have ever read.