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David Rieff

    September 28, 1952

    David Rieff is an American polemicist and pundit whose work scrutinizes complex global issues. His books have consistently addressed themes of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. Rieff's writing is distinguished by its sharp observation and incisive analysis, often delving into the intricate ethical dilemmas inherent in these critical subjects.

    Schlachthaus
    Tod einer Untröstlichen
    A Bed for the Night Humanitarianism in Crisis
    A Bed For The Night
    Swimming in a Sea of Death
    Divorcing
    • Divorcing

      • 264 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      4.0(14)Add rating

      Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century. Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. Can the rift be mended? Perhaps in the form of a novel, one that goes back from present-day New York to Sophie’s childhood in pre–World War II Budapest, that revisits the divorce between her Freudian father and her fickle mother, and finds a place for a host of further tensions and contradictions in her present life. The question that haunts Divorcing, however, is whether any novel can be fleet and bitter and true and light enough to gather up all the darkness of a given life. Susan Taubes’s startlingly original novel was published in 1969 but largely ignored at the time; after the author’s tragic early death, it was forgotten. Its republication presents a chance to discover a splintered, glancing, caustic, and lyrical work by a dazzlingly intense and inventive writer.

      Divorcing
    • Presents an account of Susan Sontag's final months, written by her son and drawing on previously unpublished letters and journals. This book writes about being by her side during that last year and at her death, and about the author's own contradictory emotions: his guilt for not consoling her enough.

      Swimming in a Sea of Death
    • A Bed For The Night

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.7(371)Add rating

      Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose.

      A Bed For The Night
    • Im März 2004 wurde bei Susan Sontag Leukämie in der schlimmsten Form diagnostiziert. Die Frau, die schon zweimal den Krebs überlebt und einen berühmten Essay darüber geschrieben hatte, beschloss, den Kampf gegen die Krankheit auch dieses Mal aufzunehmen. Ihr Sohn David Rieff beschreibt in seinem Erinnerungsbuch, was es für ihn bedeutete, einer wahrheitshungrigen Mutter in ihrem letzten Lebensjahr Lügen erzählen zu müssen. Sein Porträt ist zutiefst ergreifend und wirft Fragen auf, die jedermann angehen: Wie verhalten sich Angehörige, wenn der Kranke belogen werden will? Wie wird man mit Schuldgefühlen fertig? Was bedeutet es, in einer Kultur zu leben, die den Tod leugnet?

      Tod einer Untröstlichen
    • Bosnien ist ein Schlachthaus geworden, der Krieg ein Vernichtungskrieg gegen eine Minderheit, die bosnischen Moslems. Er hätte verhindert werden können ..

      Schlachthaus
    • Présente, sous forme d'un abécédaire composé de 150 articles rédigés par des journalistes et des juristes internationaux, les conflits contemporains avec leurs infractions graves et leurs conduites criminelles : Croatie (1991), Bosnie (1992), Rwanda (1994), Tchétchénie (1995), etc., ainsi que l'action du droit international humanitaire

      Crimes de guerre : ce gue nous devons savoir