Ruth Franklin The Many Lives of Anne Frank review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de biografie. Op 27 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de nieuwe biografie van Anne Frank geschreven door de Amerikaanse schrijfster Ruth Franklin. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de biografie, de auteur en over de uitgave. De Nederlandse vertaling van het boek met als titel De vele levens van Anne Frank verschijnt op 18 juni 2025 bij Uitgeverij Prometheus.

Ruth Franklin The Many Lives of Anne Frank review en recensie

• “With comprehensive research and stunning clarity of thought, Ruth Franklin has peeled back all the layers that lie between life and art, memory and history, icon and human being. This tour de force sets the standard for anyone thinking about Anne Frank for years to come.” (Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews)
• “Ruth Franklin meets Anne Frank incisively on her own terms, first and foremost as a writer. She executes a difficult balancing act with subtlety, returning the diary to its context while also amplifying the voice of its author.” (Stacy Schiff, author of The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams)

The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Jewish Lives

• Auteur: Ruth Franklin (Verenigde Staten)
• Soort boek: biografie
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Yale University Press
• Verschijnt: 27 januari 2025
• Omvang: 440 pagina’s
• Uitgave: gebonden boek
• Prijs: $ 30,00
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Anne Frank geschreven door Ruth Franklin

In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.

Comprehensively researched but experimental in spirit, this book chronicles and interprets Anne’s life as a Jew in Amsterdam during World War II while also telling the story of the diary—its multiple drafts, its discovery, its reception, and its message for today’s world. Writing alongside Anne rather than over her, Franklin explores the day-to-day perils of the Holocaust in the Netherlands as well as Anne’s ultimate fate, restoring her humanity and agency in all their messiness, heroism, and complexity.

With antisemitism once again in the news, The Many Lives of Anne Frank takes a fresh and timely look at the debates around Anne’s life and work, including the controversial adaptations of the diary, Anne’s evolution as a fictional character, and the ways her story and image have been politically exploited. Franklin reveals how Anne has been understood and misunderstood, both as a person and as an idea, and opens up new avenues for interpreting her life and writing in today’s hyperpolarized world.

Ruth Franklin (Verenigde Staten) – De vele levens van Anne Frank
biografie
Uitgever: Prometheus
Verschijnt: 18 juni 2025

Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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