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About The Book. The Immortal Bartfuss breaks new ground for a writer already hailed as one of the most significant novelists working today. Aharon Appelfeld’s novel takes place in contemporary Israel and offers a profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor. It is the shattering story of a man reduced to his tragic limits. Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew: אהרן National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for The Immortal Bartfuss; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for The Iron Tracks. The Immortal Bartfuss by Aharon Appelfeld is very clearly a Holocaust novel, though the narrative takes place in Israel during the 's. Specific events of the Holocaust--and descriptions of the death camps--are strikingly absent from the text. The story concerns a man who is a Holocaust survivor/5.

Aharon Appelfeld, Aharon also spelled Aron, (born Febru, Cernăuți, Romania [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]—died January 4, , Petaḥ Tiqwa, Israel), novelist and short-story writer who is best known for his Hebrew-language allegorical novels of the Holocaust.. Appelfeld at age eight and his parents were captured by Nazi troops. His mother was killed, and Aharon and his father. Find The Immortal Bartfuss by Appelfeld, Aharon at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn. Using the techniques of omission and indirection perfected in such masterpieces as Badenheim and To the Land of the Cattails, Appelfeld tells the story of Bartfuss, enigmatically "the immortal" because of his experience in the camps.

THE IMMORTAL BARTFUSS By Aharon Appelfeld. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. pp. New York: Weidenfeld Nicolson. $ In ''The Immortal Bartfuss'' Aharon Appelfeld creates a spiritual portrait of a man who survived the Holocaust and now resides in Israel. He is an exceedingly insular man, so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the. The Immortal Bartfuss breaks new ground for a writer already hailed as one of the most significant novelists working today. Aharon Appelfeld’s novel takes place in contemporary Israel and offers a profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor. It is the shattering story of a man reduced to his tragic limits. THE IMMORTAL BARTFUSS (Bartfus ben haalmavet) Novel by Aharon Appelfeld, Another "small masterpiece" (the epithet frequently evoked by reviewers and critics about Aharon Appelfeld's novels), The Immortal Bartfuss, published in Hebrew and in English translation in , focuses on a survivor living in Israel and haunted by his Holocaust experiences.