by Jean Améry · Editorial Pre-Textos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481915280
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«Lefeu o la demolición» is Jean Améry's novel-essay, published by Editorial Pre-Textos in paperback (228 pages, in Spanish).
Lefeu, a failed painter, rejects the trivialization of evil and the conversion of art into merchandise in this only complete novel by Jean Améry, an Auschwitz survivor, published in 1974. Between essay and fiction, it addresses the limits of language in the face of pain, exile, torture, suicidal attempts and aging.
It belongs to the Narrativa Contemporánea collection (no. 18). Translation, notes and prologue by Enrique Ocaña; original in German.
For readers of contemporary fiction with an interest in testimonial literature, essayistic reflection and the contradictions of today's art.
Jean Améry, born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist who wrote about his experiences surviving the Holocaust. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was "the essence" of the Third Reich. Other notable works included On Aging (1968) and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976). He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry after 1945. Améry died by suicide in 1978.
