Continuando nos non-fiction.
Após ler o Man's Search for Meaning, que é um livro que tenho na minha mesa de cabeceira e que me faz pensar muito, fiquei com vontade de ler mais memórias do Holocausto, embora saiba que, obviamente, não são todas "iguais", e que o Frankl me inspirou por motivos muito diversos.
No entanto, dei por mim a relacionar ambos os livros logo na introdução:
There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write this text. I am not convinced. I don't know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself. A miracle? Certainly not. If heaven could or would perform a miracle for me, why not for others more deserving than myself? It was nothing more than chance. However, having survived, I needed to give some meaning to my survival. Was it to protect that meaning that I set to paper an experience in which nothing made any sense?
A procura de significado, a ideia de sobreviver sob o propósito de escrever sobre a experiência.…
Após ler o Man's Search for Meaning, que é um livro que tenho na minha mesa de cabeceira e que me faz pensar muito, fiquei com vontade de ler mais memórias do Holocausto, embora saiba que, obviamente, não são todas "iguais", e que o Frankl me inspirou por motivos muito diversos.
No entanto, dei por mim a relacionar ambos os livros logo na introdução:
There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write this text. I am not convinced. I don't know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself. A miracle? Certainly not. If heaven could or would perform a miracle for me, why not for others more deserving than myself? It was nothing more than chance. However, having survived, I needed to give some meaning to my survival. Was it to protect that meaning that I set to paper an experience in which nothing made any sense?
A procura de significado, a ideia de sobreviver sob o propósito de escrever sobre a experiência.…