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Child of the Shadows
Henryk Grynberg
其他書名
Including The Grave
出版Vallentine, Mitchell, 1969
ISBN08530300819780853030089
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=I2hGAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Henryk Grynberg published Child of the Shadows in 1965 in Poland under the title Zydowska wojna ("The Jewish War") corresponding to the work by Joseph Flavius from the first century. That original title is important because the author intended to argue with a certain anti-Semitic stereotype emphasizing the passive attitude of the Jews in the face of the Holocaust. The English title links Grynberg's book too obviously to the literature concerned with the experiences of the children of the Holocaust, and thus it veils its thematic richness. The writer points out that the heroic, though passive, struggle for each hour and day of life was for the Jews the only possible form of fighting. Child of the Shadows, published in English translation in 1969, is divided into two parts. The first describes the situation of the author's family in the first months of the German occupation of Poland, beginning with the eviction and ending with the escape on the night preceding the deportation of the Jewish community to Treblinka and with the protagonist's separation from his father, who bought Aryan documents for his wife and son and then, because of his Semitic features, hid in forests but did not survive the war. The second part deals with the "Aryan papers," first in Warsaw and later in the country. The novel concludes with the coming of the Red Army in the summer of 1944.