D'ali e D'aqui: Sven Hassel

quinta-feira, 19 de novembro de 2009

Sven Hassel - Site Oficial

SVEN HASSEL WEB SITE

WORLD BESTSELLING WARBOOK AUTHOR

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and film rights of all the Sven Hassel novels for literary agents
publishers and producers.

The Sven Hassel world classics of war books are sold in 52.000.000 copies -only in the UK 15 millions.

Sven Hassel has been compared to Hemingway, Hasek and Homer. His work is considered a monument against war and dictatorship as well as one of the best pictures ever given of the plain soldier with his racy humour. Hassel tells us about the men, who do not make wars, but have to fight them.

This unique series of the world literature is about a German platoon (Porta, Tiny, Old Man, the Legionnaire, Heide, Barcelona-Blom, Sven, etc.) on different fronts during WWII and narrates the atrocity and absurdity of war as well as the brutality and stupidity of the nazi regime.

The Second World War both frightens and fascinates those, who do not carry that period as an awful memory. Its history can be told in different ways - as eyewitness descriptions, as thrillers with the war as background and as documentary works.

Sven Hassel does not use either of these genres. There is no doubt about his participation in the war on German side. But even so Sven does not give us the eyewitness description. A great part is based on his own experiences, but part is also based on his comrades' stories and as Hassel says, on the author's legitimate right to use free fantasy.

It is the small melted group of soldiers, Hassel narrates about, a brutal and talkative collective, whose overview is no further than their chin straps. Sven Hassel gives, however, a picture of the war as a way of life and at the same time as a meaningless madness.

For the private front soldier in the Wehrmacht, the only thing that matters without false hope is to survive, and to do so, the raw and cynical humour of Sven Hassel's characters is a tremendous help.
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Sven Hassel uses short sentences and chapters giving his writing a powerful dynamic. The reader does not read letters, words or sentences. The reader is seeing what the author says. Hassel's writing has strength, expressiveness, he has an easiness to touch, a tremendous sensibility even to describe the barbarity, and last but not least he has humour!
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Hassel heads straight to what matters. He tells. He does not loose his time describing and when he does, two brush-strokes are enough, because the plot, the action makes superfluous the description. In the literature of the 20th century narration predominates over description. By this, novels frequently - and Sven Hassel is an example -gain in force, power and above all in rhythm. This rhythm - understood as cinematographic rhythm - is the one which predominates over the action, but the dominion of the tempo of a novel is only within the reach of few authors. And Sven Hassel is one of them.

Please, find a list of related web pages of some Sven Hassel publishers in different territories

Danish official site

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