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aije fait pour trouver ce livre Une partie de l'histoire ranconte la mienne, . . The follow up to J'ai Qunize Ans picks up right where its predecessor left as Christine takes us through hers and her parents' very risky journey across the border that fortunately ends without fatal wounds.
They then settle down in a camp in Kufstein and from there the story picks up a completely different pace, Christine the childwhoescapedwar is now a young woman in a full Emma Bovary mode, Her seemingly never ending caprices dominate the pages, A lot of people who compare her to Madame Bovary do it in a pejorative light but it's not so for me, Christine may complain a lot but she is doing it on paper! She never troubles anyone, she keeps it all inside in an attempt not bother those around her.
I sympathize with her due to my own mood swings and general displeasure with everything and anything life throws my way, On another note, Christine is the feminist hero that never was, She has her priorities sorted out right but never acts on them, she lets her reckless, foolish and childlike husband lead the way, The whole ordeal made me really anxious and I just wanted
to reach her through the pages and scream 'LEAVE', There was a certain unforgettable phrase from which her triumph radiated to me and got me rooting for her, It was when the Hungarian writer addressed her as a colleague, Her exact words were: 'Par le mot collègue, il m'avait sacrée écrivain', which means with 'the word colleague he anointed me a writer', A well deserved three, Christine Arnothy's first book I Am Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die was welcomed by the critics as one of the most remarkable personal documents of the war and as the work of a born writer.
It was based on a diary written during the Russian siege of Budapest, It is Not so Easy to Live tells the story of her flight after she had escaped from Hungary with her parents, In Vienna they survived a series of adventures and finally managed to cross the frontier of the Russian Zone of Austria with the aid of forged documents, only to find themselves immured in an Allied refugee camp at Kufstein.
The book goes on to tell of Christine's arrival in Paris, where she found employment as nurse to a child, of her marriage to Georges, a Hungarian whom she had previously encountered at Kufstein, and of their life together, friendless in an alien country.
Miss Arnothy has, to a remarkable degree, the ability to recapture her past experiences and this enables us to sympathize with and even to share the feelings of a young girl who is a refugee, but who still longs to enjoy the youth she feels passing from her.
Anxiety and loneliness, disappointment and grinding poverty, these are daily features of the life of a refugee, They could only be overcome by work which was hard yet poorly rewarded, by courage and absence of self pity, by the determination to become a writer which sustained her and which never weakened.
These characteristics which Miss Arnothy has shown so conspicuously in her life are communicated with equal intensity in her book, .