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The Shawl

Cynthia Ozick

Paperback | Pages: 74 pages

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Title	:	The Shawl
Author	:	Cynthia Ozick
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 74 pages
Published	:	August 29th 1990 by Vintage (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. World War II. Holocaust. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Jewish. American. War

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Cynthia Ozick is a premier short story writer and novelist in this country. The Shawl and Rosa, published together in one volume, each won awards for best American fiction or short story the year they were published. My entry for "classic short story" in classic Bingo in the group catching up on classics, The Shawl is a moving tale of Holocaust survivor Rosa Lublin who clings to a shawl in order to not forget all the ghosts of her past.

In The Shawl, we meet a young Rosa Lublin who along with her adolescent niece Stella and infant daughter Magda had been taken from the Warsaw ghetto to the concentration camps. Rosa's milk had dried up and the only means for Magda's survival was sucking on a woven shawl, that according to Rosa smelled and tasted of cinnamon and vanilla. The women's body functions had all but stopped and Magda should not be alive, but for the powerful shawl. Stella, jealous of Magda's security blanket, coveted it for herself. Rosa realized that if Stella ever took the shawl, that Magda would die and she would be plunged into a life of guilt.

Thirty years later, the shawl resurfaces in Ozick's novella Rosa. Rosa is now living in Miami and can not shake the ghosts of her past. She struggles with human attachment, believes Stella to be a cold hearted devil, and rarely answers her phone or leaves her room. Her only excursions away from her solitary life are to the laundromat. On one of these such excursions she meets Mr Persky who desires human companionship and attempts to draw Rosa out of her shell. Yet, Rosa struggles with survivor guilt, talks to herself, and believes Magda to be alive. Over the course of the novella, Rosa fights off her inner voices who haunt her current reality.

In both selections, Ozick employs the magical realism that I always enjoy to show the shawl to be an object greater than itself. A means of Magda's survival and then in later years, Rosa's only link to Magda, the shawl takes Rosa out of her chilling everyday struggle to live in the present. Ozick uses powerful prose so even though these stories were short, they were tough to read in large doses. As in most of the Holocaust memoirs and literature that I read, the content is more so readers do not forget what happened than the actual prose in the story. In this case, Ozick masterfully manages both, creating a powerful gem.

After thirty five years, the Shawl has earned its place as a memorable short story of the twentieth century. Integrating a powerful voice with ghosts of the past alongside magical realism, Cynthia Ozick has woven a chilling tale, cementing her place as a master short story teller. A candid piece of Holocaust literature, The Shawl and Rosa rates 5 bone chilling stars.

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Original Title:	The Shawl
ISBN:	0679729267 (ISBN13: 9780679729266)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	O. Henry Award for 'Shawl' (1981)

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There can be something disturbingly beautiful in the portrayal of a child dying. For example in this scene from Lars Von Trier's Anti-Christ (don't click if you don't want to see a little bit of tasteful but graphic sex. Don't worry there is no genital mutilation going on here), and the manner the baby gets done in "The Shawl". I know that it's wrong to find babies dying beautiful, but it's actually an interesting technique to use in a piece of art. Babies dying are like puppies getting kicked

A (very) slender volume containing a celebrated but brief short story, "The Shawl", and a linked novelette, "Rosa".The former is a powerful story of a Polish mother, Rosa, who's been successful in shielding her infant, Magda, from the eyes of the guards in a Nazi concentration camp because the child can inevitably be soothed to silence by a ratty old shawl. One day Rosa's teenage niece, Stella, "borrows" the shawl because cold; Magda toddles off into the open and is brutally murdered by a guard.

The Shawl, Cynthia Ozicks very short story entitled for the tired cloth in which her main character, Rosa, wraps her infant child, Magda -- whilst hiding her from the Nazi soldiers who patrol the concentration camp wherein they are prisoners -- is rich with symbolism. Most notably, the shawl itself carries immense symbolic weight within this piece, as does the electric fence which surrounds the camp, Rosas depleted breasts, air and hell: an impressive list for a seven page story, and a

"The Shawl" is considered a modern classic. But I didn't like it. At all. Why on earth not? Everyone else is raving about it. - The suffering and cruel murder of Rosa's child are told in a very poetic way. One reviewer wrote : "There can be something disturbingly beautiful in the portrayal of a child dying...and the manner the baby gets done in "The Shawl". I know that it's wrong to find babies dying beautiful, but it's actually an interesting technique to use in a piece of art."How sick is

I find Holocaust stories both complex and simple. Manifestations of utter inhumanity are highly attractive, whether for transmitting moral lessons or conveying a perspective of human nature. I myself wrote a Holocaust story as a young teenager, seduced by the power of survival against the crushing will of annihilation. Few scenarios are still so historically close and tangible to achieve such compelling narratives, mixing cruelty, desperation and absurdity with tenderness, compassion and

This was haunting and like all Auschwitz books that i read Im always horrified at the inhumanity of humans and some of the pics that these words paint are magical in the most lugubrious sense. Its the story of a lady that has her baby torn away from her in a concentration camp and killed. The image of the baby being killed will stay with me for a long long time. The story then zooms forward about 50 years when Rosa is now in America and trying to live a pseudo normal life. She starts losing her

Terse and harrowing, The Shawl is a dry-mouthed nightmare, interrupted only to discover the droning window unit has went demonic.