THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND DEATH (DE LACH EN DE DOOD)
Book ID/图书代码： 13356013B62784
English Summary/英文概要： When the legendary Jewish comedian Earnest Hofman (‘No humour without being Earnest’) is deported to a camp in Poland in February 1944, his skills become a way to survive. His beloved Helena is in the women’s camp and in exchange for the delivery of love letters – written on paper from bags of cement – he tells his fellow inmates jokes for fifteen minutes every day. This doesn’t go unnoticed.
The camp commandant asks him to perform for the Germans. Hofman refuses, even if being an SScomedian would give him access to a good supply of food. But then he realizes that his performances could save Helena who is seriously ill. Behind the curtains for his first show he hears the German audience sing Wenn das Judenblut vom Messer spritzt. How is he going to entertain the enemy in this highly charged atmosphere?
Pieter Webeling questions how we make moral decisions. Humour is a weapon of survival, but how far can you go? What happens to humour when it is balanced with the most weighty matters? Can a joke save lives when death is near? When Earnest prepares his comeback in a large Amsterdam
theatre in 1946, he realizes that the greatest misery can produce the biggest laughter. But can he use these jokes?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当传说中的的犹太喜剧演员欧内斯特•霍尔曼（“没有欧内斯特就没有幽默“）于1944年2月被驱逐到波兰的营地，他的技能成为了生存的方法。他心爱的海伦娜在妇女的营地，他们将交换的情书写在水泥袋的纸上，他每天用十五分钟给他的狱友讲笑话。这不能被忽视。
该营地的司令官让霍尔曼给德国人表演。他拒绝了，即使做一个喜剧演员会让他有丰富的食品。但后来他意识到，他的表演可以拯救病重的海伦娜。在他首秀的幕帘后面他听到德国观众在唱”Wenn das Judenblut vom Messer spritzt“。他如何在这种高度紧张的气氛中给敌人表演。
彼得•威贝林格提出来了问题：我们如何做出道德选择。幽默是生存的武器，但你能走多远？当幽默可以平衡最严肃的事情时，它会发生什么？当死亡临近时，一个笑话可以拯救生命？当欧内斯特于1946年准备在一个大的阿姆斯特丹剧院复出时，他意识到最大的痛苦可以产生最大的笑声。但是他能运用这些笑话吗？（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：‘The strength of The Book of Laughter and Death is the hyperrealism which leads us to the potentially realistic
conclusion: every man is capable of murder – and then even humor dies.’ – de Volkskrant
‘The horror is written in razor sharp prose.’ – Noordhollands Dagblad ****
About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得•威贝林格（1965）为”人民报”，“Rails”，“一月”以及“HUMO”做采访。他写了一本叫做《五大情绪》的散文书，并于2008年发表他的小说处女作《四十天》。由于《笑声和死亡之书》是他的研究的一部分，威贝林格采访了德国集中营里的幸存者。他还和荷兰当代著名喜剧演员 Youp van ‘t Hek讨论了书中的滑稽内容。《笑声和死亡之书》的德语翻译将是祝福出版社2013年秋季目录标题中最重要的文学作品。Pieter Webeling (1965) conducts interviews for de Volkskrant, Rails, Jan and Humo. He wrote a book
of essays called The Five Great Emotions and in 2008 his debut novel Forty Days was published. As part of his research for The Book of Laughter and Death, Webeling interviewed survivors of the German concentration camps. He also discussed the comical content of the book with the prominent contemporary Dutch comedian Youp van ‘t Hek. The German translation of The Book of Laughter and Death will be the most important literary title of the 2013 fall catalogue of Blessing Verlag.
Format:HARDCOVER
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Denmark (Turbine), Germany (Blessing) and Norway (Bazar), film rights sold to Made in Munich
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