The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944-the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. Tec reveals that this extraordinary community included both men and women, some with weapons, but mostly unarmed, ranging from infants to the elderly. She reconstructs for the first time the amazing details of how these partisans and their families-hungry, exposed to the harsh winter weather-managed not only to survive, but to offer protection to all Jewish fugitives who could find their way to them. Arguing that this success would have been unthinkable without the vision of one man, Tec offers penetrating insight into the group's commander, Tuvia Bielski. Tec brings to light the untold story of Bielski's struggle as a partisan who lost his parents, wife, and two brothers to the Nazis, yet never wavered in his conviction that it was more important to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans.She shows how, under Bielski's guidance, the partisans smuggled Jews out of heavily guarded ghettos, scouted the roads for fugitives, and led retaliatory raids against Belorussian peasants who collaborated with the Nazis. Herself a Holocaust survivor, Nechama Tec here draws on wide-ranging research and never before published interviews with surviving partisans-including Tuvia Bielski himself-to reconstruct here the poignant and unforgettable story of those who chose to fight. "The saga of the Bielski partisans is one of the most elevating and inspiring stories in the chronicle of death and despair that is the Holocaust...Defiance is an accomplished and startling work of Holocaust documentation." --Los Angeles Times "Powerful and meticulous. This story is like almost no other." --Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
Nechama Tec (née Bawnik)[1] is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.[2] She is a noted Holocaust scholar, and is the author of the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0195075951) on which the 2008 film Defiance is based.
She was born in Lublin, Poland to a family of Polish Jews in 1931,[3] and was 8 years old in 1939 when Poland was invaded by Germany.[4] She survived the Holocaust thanks to her life being saved by Polish Catholics.[4][5] After the war she immigrated to Israel and later moved to the United States, where she earned a doctorate at Columbia University.[4]
She is the mother of film director Roland Tec.[6]
Nechama Tec was initially shocked by the changes made in adapting her book to make the film Defiance. The Bielski partisans, for example, never actually went into battle against Third Reich tanks. However, after seeing the film a number of times, she confessed to liking it "more and more."
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我得说,这本书的叙事节奏掌控得非常高明,完全不是那种流水账式的平铺直叙。它采用了多线索、非线性的结构,信息点是碎片化地抛给读者的,你得像个侦探一样,把散落在各个章节的线索拼凑起来,才能构建出完整的世界观和事件脉络。这种叙事手法,初看可能会有点费劲,感觉抓不住重点,但一旦你适应了作者的节奏,你会发现这才是阅读的最大乐趣所在——那种“啊哈!”的顿悟感。每一次真相的揭露,都不是简单地告诉你“发生了什么”,而是通过不同角色的回忆、日记片段或者旁观者的视角侧面烘托出来的,层次感极强。特别是作者对于历史背景的构建,那种深埋在故事底层的那些约定、那些失败的革命,处理得极其克制,不急于一次性交代清楚,而是随着剧情的推进,一点点渗出来,让人对这个架空的世界产生强烈的好奇心和探索欲。读完后劲非常足,会让你忍不住回翻前几章,重新审视那些之前被忽略的细节,你会发现作者在伏笔的设置上简直是密不透风,简直是教科书级别的布局。
评分从角色的塑造上看,这本书的核心吸引力在于它的“边缘人”群像。书中几乎没有一个传统意义上的英雄人物,主角们大多是身处社会边缘、被主流世界排斥或者主动远离主流的人。他们可能因为过去的错误,或者仅仅是因为不符合既有的规范而被标签化,生活在系统的夹缝之中。作者细腻地描绘了他们如何在绝境中维持尊严,如何在没有外部支持的情况下,依靠彼此之间那种脆弱而又坚韧的联结来生存下去。特别是几位配角,虽然戏份不多,但个个都立体得像一个活生生的人,他们身上的伤痕、他们对生活的理解,都构成了这个世界残酷而又真实的一部分。这种对“非主流”群体的关注,让整个故事充满了悲悯情怀,让人感受到,真正的力量往往诞生于那些不被看见、不被期待的地方。这本书让我思考,我们今天所处的世界,究竟是为谁而存在的?那些被忽略的声音,是否才是最值得倾听的真相?
评分读完后,我最直接的感受是,作者对“权力”二字的理解非常深刻且透彻,这不是一本简单的冒险故事,它更像是一部关于权力腐蚀与抗争的寓言。书中的高层机构和那些制定规则的人,他们的运作逻辑不是基于简单的贪婪,而是基于一种更深层的、对秩序的病态维护欲,他们相信自己所做的一切都是“必要的恶”。这种设定,让故事的冲突变得异常尖锐,因为你面对的敌人不是一个可以轻易识别的恶棍,而是一整套看似逻辑自洽的体制。而那些反抗者,他们的行动也常常被置于道德的审判之下,他们的“正义”往往是以牺牲或伤害普通人为代价的。这本书最成功的地方就在于,它没有给出任何简单的答案,它强迫你思考:在维护一个不公但稳定的结构和一个充满风险但自由的未来之间,我们该如何选择?这种对社会结构和政治哲学的探讨,通过一个个鲜活的个体命运展现出来,读起来既烧脑又震撼,让人久久不能平静。
评分这本书,说实话,我一开始抱着挺大的期待,毕竟封面设计得很有冲击力,那种暗色调的排版,加上几个模糊的人影,感觉故事背景一定很宏大、很复杂。读进去之后,才发现,嗯,这个作者的笔力是有的,他对人物内心的刻画相当细腻,那种挣扎、那种在灰色地带游走的道德困境,写得非常真实。比如主角在面对一个看似两难的抉择时,那种内心的撕扯,我都能感同身受,仿佛自己也站在那个十字路口。他没有用那种老套的“好人”与“坏人”的二元对立来划分角色,而是让每个人物都有自己的苦衷和动机,即便是那些站在对立面的角色,你也能找到一丝丝理解的缝隙。这让整个故事的张力非常饱满,不是简单的正邪较量,而是一场关于人性深度的探讨。我尤其欣赏作者在环境描写上的功力,那种末世感或者说压抑的社会氛围,通过一些细微的场景描写就烘托出来了,不需要大篇幅的铺垫,几笔勾勒就能让人身临其境,感受到那种无形的压迫感。总的来说,这是一本需要你静下心来品味的文字作品,它不追求快速的剧情推进,而是更注重氛围的营造和人物灵魂的挖掘。
评分这本书的语言风格,我个人觉得非常冷峻、克制,带着一种老派的文学气质,完全没有现在很多流行小说那种轻佻的、过分口语化的表达。作者的句子结构往往比较复杂,信息密度很大,用词精准,像是在雕琢每一个词语的重量。比如描写一场战斗或者一次紧张的对峙,他很少使用大开大合的形容词堆砌来渲染气氛,而是通过精确的动词和意象的选取,营造出一种精准的、令人窒息的紧张感。这种写作方式,对读者的阅读耐心要求较高,如果你期待的是那种快节奏、情节不断反转的爆米花读物,可能会觉得有些沉闷。但对于喜欢沉浸在文字的韵律感中,享受语言的雕琢之美的读者来说,这本书简直是一场盛宴。我甚至会偶尔停下来,去回味某一个段落的措辞,那种文字的质感,如同冰冷的金属触感,非常独特,让人印象深刻。
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