Notes on Enemies a Love Story

 

 

Nobel prize this one liked by London Times and dismissed by New York or something

Humor indeed

Portnoy link

Herman Broder Yadwiga a fatalistic hedonist without belief in himself or the human race bigamist who had a lover as well – he wanted all three tamara had become more interesting

At times, when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysic, maybe a new religion, he based evertying on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, principle is desire

If God was able to watch all this horror –

 

free will link to Lewis –

 

amd remain silent, then he is no God Tamara

Quotes from Nietzche Spinoza…

 

Link to Frankl

 

Wasn’t it possible that a hitler presided on high and inflicted pain on imprisoned souls? Aka God is hitler …he had equipped them with claws, teeth, flesh etc so they had to either commit evil or perish to that effect

Averything in haste, eat, work, speak…perhaps rushing was one of God’s attributes

Masha all sorts of sexual questions if she had a sister would she let her fuck Herman and so on ad

Paper ad and call and finds Tamara is alive, now he has three women to juggle with hysterical woman he had been about to divorce when war broke out

Tamara went to URSS and he was awful, no man, she cannot have sex without love and she says

Masha’s husband meets with Herman and then a cucknbull story with the war, coming to America how the wife is to blame

He discovered a new source of energy so they said they don’t want a second crash on Wall Street, hahaha and then rich people stole his invention, or there was more than one!

Leon Tortshiner

Marries Masha who is expecting, Yadwiga may also be pregnant and she converts to Judaism calls Masha Goy shtetl kaddish mezuzah

Actually, Masha’s pregnancy was fictitious, only in her mind, Yadwiga starts cursing spouse and says he is seeing his mistress, the whore

Then Tamara comes and Yadwiga thinks she is a ghost…all sorts f things happen

Horrors from camps young girl naked bets on her and she falls into the pit of excrement

Link to the Hebrew who wrote Malamud

He calls her shikseh she had saved him, hiding him in a loft, then married in aemrica she behaved like she was still a peasant in the house of his father, his wife had been taken and shot dead the children killed by Nazis

For Yadwiga the apartment made up for not having children, it was like a palace you pushed a button and light came, you had hot and cold water at faucet, tunred the knog and fire for cooking…tub for baths, and the radio!

Herman is a ghost writer for this rich rabbi Milton Lampert, real estate, modern, no time to write but contributes to papers

He is bored by Yadwiga’s goodness has this lover Mashamarried to Leon Tortshiner, when he pretended he was on the road, selling books, he spent the night with Masha

Tamara was his first wife vising her father who had a villa in some place while Herman in this village when nazis invaded Poland supposedly she was shot dead with children

 

At nineteen passed examinations and enrolled in the school of philosophy at university

Masha had these grudges with her mother, latter in a coma periodically, doctors gave her up and then she recovered

Masha like Scheherezade before going to bed with Herman, she would tell a story

Ad in newspaper that herman has to call and it was the uncle of his dead wife tamara