弗里德里希：一個被消失的德國少年

2024-4-26

在书店里捡到了一本旧书，是德国作家Hans Peter Richter（1925-1993）于1961年写的《Friedrich》的英文版。

老实说，这本书写得不错，文笔细腻，跳跃式叙事，翻译得也浅显易懂，薄薄得一小本，堪舆安娜日记媲美。所以能够一口气读完，欲罢不能。里面的场景，希特勒治下的德国人上世纪30年代对于犹太人的集体迫害和抄家，在我们中国60年代文革的时候都似曾相识。这和目前中国的现状也不无联系，所以孔子说，危邦不入，乱邦不居，该润得时候就润。而且网上现在还卖中文版，厚厚的一大本。只是不知道翻译得怎么样，以及值不值得一读。

• My son read this in 6th grade and it is a book about the Holocaust - it was a great read and thought provoking. Hans Peter Richter’s Friedrich tells the story of two boyhood friends between 1925 and 1942. They are the same age and live in the same block of flats, so they know each other well. Friedrich Schneider is Jewish. At the beginning of this story, Friedrich's father has a good job and his family is comfortably off. Friedrich's friend, who narrates the story, is poor. His father is unemployed. The narrator of the novel — Friedrich’s friend and an unnamed Christian — tells of the horror that befell Friedrich’s family as the monstrosity of the Third Reich loomed over their lives. While the narrator is able to observe as an outsider who is witness to the tragedy from a position of relative safety, Friedrich is swept along by unpredictable events that are never in his control.

小不点儿们这个周末的阅读与写作课，就是它了。