The Pianist

The Pianist

by Wladyslaw Szpilman

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Tags: auto-biography, holocaust, Jewish, movie, non-fiction, poland, szpilman

Finished reading: 05.27.2006

Rating: 10

Over and over again I’ve read/heard people saying that Szpilman was no writer, afterall, he was a pianist, his son, in the prolouge, even says this. I must disagree. Szpilman describes life in the getto and life in hiding quite vividly. He talks of his amazing circumstances, his thoughts of suicide, feelings of loneliness, his wishing that he knew his little sister better but knowing that it would never be, and how he survived these incredible circumstances. He helps us, those who were not there, to better understand.

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