Storie dal Ghetto di Budapest
It's a beautiful book this one because these portraits are enchantingly interesting; a microcosm resonating thanks to uits past.
Jewish tales, they can be short, they can be long won't never leave the reader indifferent, because there is a mixture of magician, wisdosm, religion, and much more in all of them and these ones are not different from the ones I read in the past.
Thanks to these little biographies, thanks to these anecdots we will touch the ineluctability of existence, the horrors seen and lived by most of the characters, like also their new beginnings, failures, victories.
Budapest knew the Eighth District; it was the Jewish Ghetto. In that place, in particular poor Jewish men and women worked and operated: you will discover that all of them became special, peculiar, at the eyes of the rest of population of the Eighth District as it happen in little communities; they had special characteristics and a strong unicity as it happen in all little communities.
You will read the story of an enchanting lady in grade of capturing the heart of a little boy, but also the one of Franja, a retarded lady; also once dead she will become a real pest with the living ones; you will discover who Selma Grun was and her bad character; there is the story of another boy with an important mental retard. For this reason, the story is told with the narrating voice of Roberto Leuchtner, the protagonist, once discovered that her mother and relatives wants to put him in a special place he promises of not giving peace to her mother, if she will accomplish to it, maintaining the promise.
There is a story of love and hate for a relative.
Tibor Schreiber was a man without too much moral values. He earned money always cheating other people with unclear business, but he had a good character after all with her relatives. Being a social man started to be appreciated by his littlest cousin; but one day, when this little boy went somewhere for picking up a caldrum for the sciolet, he met along her way a contemporary of him, this time christian and that boy insulted him. Devastated the boy run away crying alot but met along his way Tibor. Tibor decided that his cousin had to be more rude with the christian, and asked him, (they returned in that place) of hurting him. But his cousin did not it, because simply he thought that it was devastating, that maybe that boy once would have changed his mind; that a revenge was not necessary after all. Why fighting in that way?
Tibor devastated his face with fists and slaps. From there the little boy started to hate with all himself Tibor. Why was he so nasty? And he cursed him, wishing him all the worse.
Pity that people like Tibor, as understood also the protagonist of the story won't never lose because they know how to navigate in this existence and once in Paris seeing Tibor happily together again with his ex companion (I can't tell you all the short tale) will eat all sad another terrible sciolet.
The Green Elephant is a longest tale and it's the story of Isacco, a boy who once made a weird dream involving a green elephant. His dad was more than sure: this one was a great sign of a wonderful future for Isacco and his entire family after generations less lucky for their family. Isacco so, is pretty optimistic, but a lot of misadventures will always change for worse his future and present.
The promise will remain his two children. They ended up in America and Rome, but it will be the actor one who will experience the old frenesy and where possible unhappiness experienced by his dad.
A strong book, with strong tales that I am sure will leave you satisfied, and also with a lot of thoughts in the mind.
This one is a book of no more than 210 pages but its density will remain with you forever.
I thank Marsilio Editori for the physical copy of this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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