Get Your Copy Painted In Words: A Memoir Outlined By Samuel Bak Released Through Electronic Format

knyga, didžioji dalis apie Vilnių, Labai gerai papildo ir persipina su “Knygų gelbėtojais Vilniaus gete”, Ir išties nuostabu, kaip puikiai dailininkas valdo žodį, Tokia kanoviška Vilniaus saga, This is different from most Holocaust memoirs, not only because its author is famous in his own right, but because it's not really about the Holocaust, Surprisingly few of the pages I'd estimate perhaps onequarter to onethird of the book are about Bak's experiences hiding from the Nazis, I suppose people expecting to hear all about the vicious Germans and Lithuanians and the ghetto and the kind nuns who sheltered him would be disappointed, but I thought this was a refreshing change.
The book is also not written in chronological order, but rather skips around quite a bit the way people's thoughts tend to do, But I didn't find it hard to follow,

Bak's book instead is a labor of love for his family, for his ancestors and for a way of life the war destroyed forever, I was mesmerized by his tales about his greatgrandfather that bore approximately twentyfive children starting when he was thirteen, About his grandmother who disagreed with his mother about how long Bak's shorts could be and kept sewing on fabric extensions to the legs which his mother ripped off, About his family's housekeeper and her tantrums and prejudices, This is a true painting in words, and it's painted with love and longing, without the bitterness and hate you might expect from someone who lost so much, Highly recommended. At my first sight of a painting by Samuel Bak, I had the keen sense that he was telling me stories with his brush, Now that at long last he has written this book, I find it no wonder that he has painted with his pen, Among the tens and hundreds of books I have read about the preShoah and postShoah period, . . Bak's book is unique. Despite being suffused with a sense

of loss, horror, degradation, and death, it is ultimately a sanguine, funny book, full of the love of life, rocking with an almost cathartic joy.
At times I found myself bursting out laughing, . . a marvelous ode, a colorful hymn to the forces of life, love, creation, and the joys of the senses, From the Foreword by Amos Oz

In Painted in Words internationally renowned artist Samuel Bak sets aside his brushes to narrate the stories of his lifeas a child in Nazioccupied Vilna, as a youth in European refugee camps, and as a maturing artist in Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.
With gentle humor, the child prodigy of the faraway past and the accomplished artist of today engage in a spirited dialogue from which emerges a selfportrait of "The Artist as a Youngand middleaged and agingSurvivor.
" The brilliance, vision, and virtuosity that Bak brings to his painting are equally in evidence in his writing, This deeply touching work is an important contribution to Holocaust literature and art history, .