The Pianist - The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival In Warsaw, 1939-45

Wladyslaw Szpilman

Picador

2000

220 páginas

7h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780312311353

The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was the same piece and the same pianist, when broadcasting resumed six years later. The Pianist is Szpilman's account of the years inbetween, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock. Szpilman, now 88, has not looked at his description since he wrote it in 1946 (the same time as Primo Levi's If This Is A Man?) it is too personally painful. The rest of us have no such excuse.

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5 (Perfeito)

É um livro bem triste e pesado de se ler, mas ao mesmo tempo o autor tenta contar tudo com certa objetividade, então torna a leitura um pouco mais fácil. Li depois de ver o filme.