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the camp, Transnistria, and spent a
were meaningless. "Kafka restored to
few years wandering in the forests.
many of us the meaning of the word."
When the war ended he joined the
The Holocaust is a presence in
Soviet Army as a kitchen boy. In
much of Appelfeld's work. He sees
1946, he made his way to Palestine
himself as one of the few people writ-
and more than 25 years later was
ing "literature about the Holocaust,
reunited with his father: Neither knew
as opposed to memoir, and notes that
the other had survived.
the two are often confused.
The man who would become a
"I was a child, without a past," he
world-class author — and the winner
says. "Chronology was not in my soul.
of this year's National Jewish Book
I remember but then have to fill in the
Award in the fiction category for The
gaps with imagination."
Iron Tracks (Schocken; $21), his 11th
In The Iron Tracks, he writes about
novel to be translated into English —
Erwin Siegelbaum, a Holocaust sur-
has written works that are now trans-
vivor in the 1950s who spends his
lated into 27 lan-
guages. Yet, he did-
n't know how to
read at age 14
when he arrived in
Palestine.
Hebrew, his
adopted tongue,
became Appelfeld's
first written lan-
guage, and it is the
language in which
he has written
more than a dozen
books — highly
praised for their
polished, under-
stated prose and
penetrating vision.
Meeting
Appelfeld, who is
now 66, one is
struck by his voice,
at once gentle and
energetic, serious
and cheerful. The
many languages he National Book Award winner Aharon Appelfeld: Kafka-esque.
speaks, including
German, Yiddish
days traveling on a cir-
and Romanian,
cular route through
Hebrew too, are
remote towns in
reflected in the
Austria, searching for
rhythms of his
Jewish artifacts and for
speech. So much of
the Nazi officer who
Jewish history
killed his parents in a
echoes in his accent.
concentration camp.
Appelfeld, who
Every year,
lives in Jerusalem,
Siegelbaum's journey
recently spoke of
begins and ends in the
Czech author Franz
station where he and a
Kafka's influence
group of survivors
on him.
were locked in a train
"He spoke to
by the Nazis, just
me in my mother
before liberation. Burdened with
tongue," said Appelfeld, referring to
memories, he goes over his own
the German his assimilated parents
tracks, repeating his visits to station
spoke at home. "He spoke to me in
cafes and inns; the same taxi drivers
another language I knew so well: the
wait
for him yearly.
language of the absurd."
It is only on trains that Siegelbaum
After the Holocaust, he continued,
finds solace — and also freedom.
there was a general feeling that words
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