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The Diary Of Anne Frank, New Edition: Interpretations (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2010)

by Harold Bloom(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1604138688 (ISBN13: 9781604138689)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

review 1: Wow - I can't believe I had never read this book before! sometimes it is very difficult to decide to read a true account of such a deplorable time.....and that is probably what prevented me from picking up this book. After taking the tour of the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, though, I knew I really needed to learn the whole story. Seeing the house was remarkable - and reading Anne's diary was really a privilege. I was actually surprised at what an excellent writer and thinker she was! She had a very strong spirit and was quite opinionated! I can't even imagine what it must have been like to have lived in such close quarters with so many people - and so little privacy. There is some complaining - mostly about the shortcomings of her mother or the other guest... mores - but she also expresses such gratitude for little things. I was also impressed with the Dutch people who helped them all out. This was such a powerful book - it should be required reading for anyone who feels sorry for themselves!
review 2: These essays offer some very interesting insights into post-war attitudes using the Diary as a prism. I wouldn't say the book offers a tremendous amount of insight into the Diary itself. A recurring theme was the "exploitation" of the Diary and its role in skewing views of the Holocaust, the role of the Jew as victim and the suppression of the horrors of the Holocaust through the Broadway play and later the film version of the Diary. There was a lot of redundancy in the telling of the internecine struggles between Otto Frank, the writer Meyer Levin and various writers and producers. Still, it was quite worthwhile gaining these insights into aspects of "victim literature" after WWII. less

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