Silbermann

By Jacques de Lacretelle

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885586566
• ISBN13: 9781885586568
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 7.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A simple story with a sad message

The story is set in 1920s Paris. It tells of how a young high school student befriends a same age Jewish boy at his school. The spectre of antisemitism is rampant. Our protagonist is unrelenting in defense of his friend, even at the price of undecutting the respect he had for his parents. The final test of his devotion comes when his Jewish friend's father, an antique dealer, is accused and charged with fraud. Curiously, his own father is charged with investigating the wrong doing and bases his conclusions, not on the evidence, but on what will best serve his long-term professional ambitions. Surely the novels popularity at the time served as an indictment against a society which all too often prided itself for its intellectual enlightenment.