Lustig, Arnost. Darkness Casts No Shadow. Northwestern University Press, 1985.
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Lustig gives the reader a new perspective on the ordeal of adolescence because of the conditions under which it must take place. At the same time - and again, incidentally - he draws him into the world of the Holocaust. By amalgamating universal problems of maturation with the day-to-day horrors of the concentration camp, he shines new light on the former and makes the latter more real, more accessible to those who did not live through it.
This work is very autobiographical. As the author escaped from a train on its way to Dachau…
In Darkness Casts No Shadow two boys escape from a train on its way to Dachau. Wandering through the woods in search of Prague, they slip from the present the forest is in its own way as hostile as the camp - into the idolized past of their childhood and the idealized future of manhood.
