The Assistant - Der Gehülfe (1976)

Kitap : Yardımcı

Yazar : Robert Walser

Yayınevi : Can Yayınları

Basım Tarihi : 2013

Sayfa Sayısı :280

Boyut : 13.5 x 19.5 cm

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Kitap link : https://www.kitapyurdu.com/

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Konu: Joseph Marti, uzun süren işsizlik döneminden sonra, mühendis ve mucit Carl Tobler’in yanında iş bulur. Ne var ki tüm sermayesini kimsenin ilgilenmediği tuhaf icatlarına yatıran Tobler, aslında iflasın eşiğindedir.

Robert Walser’in Tanner Kardeşler’in hemen ardından yayımladığı Yardımcı, okuru XX. yüzyıl modernizminin ilk kriz yıllarına götürür. Walser 1908 tarihli bu ikinci romanında, aidiyet ve dü­zen gibi insani ihtiyaçların gitgide lüks halini almaya başladığı bir dönemin toplumsal ilişkilerini, unutulmaz Joseph Marti karakteri üzerinden öyküler. Walser, sadece maddi olarak değil, manevi değerleriyle de hızla kaçınılmaz iflasa doğru sürüklenen bir burjuva ailesini bu toplumsal ilişkilerin merkezine yerleştirirken, çöküşü hazırlayan nedenleri sorgulamaz. Walser’i ilgilendiren, insandır. Yardımcı, modern zamanların yeni toplumsal düzeninde, eskinin çöküşünü yaşayan, ona maruz kalan ve ağırlığı altında ezilen sıradan insanı anlatır, onun duygularını dile getirir. (Tanıtım Bülteninden)

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Book: The Assistant

Writer : Robert Walser

Publisher : New Directions

Publish Date : 2007

Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7 inches

Pages: 320

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Book link: https://www.amazon.com/

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Plot: Joseph Marti, a 24-year-old clerk, comes to work and live in the home-office of inventor-entrepreneur Karl Tobler, a boor and practical incompetent. As business prospects dry up and investors lose interest, Joseph's job becomes a surreal parody of itself, his only function to send away creditors, smoke cigars and drink coffee with Tobler's wife. Yet as he awaits the inevitable financial collapse of the family, Joseph remains in thrall of Tobler, subject to nightmares about being berated while he works on, unpaid, in a thankless job that only gets more demeaning. Joseph continually writes letters, "memoirs" and journal entries, but always tears up his writing and throws it in the trash. He remains a willing prisoner of Tobler's rages and declining fortunes, for perverse love of the household in spite of his unhappiness-the archetype of a colorless, characterless, purely functional assistant.

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Film : The Assistant - Der Gehülfe (1976)

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Yönetmen-Director : Thomas Koerfer

Senaryo-Writers : Robert Walser, Thomas Koerfer, Dieter Feldhausen

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Oyuncular-Stars : Paul Burian - Joseph Marti, Verena Buss - Frau Tobler, Ingold Wildenauer - Karl Tobler, Wolfram Berger – Wirsich, Hannelore Hoger – Klara, Nikola Weisse – Pauline, Lucie Avenay - Frau Wirsich, Jürgen Cziesla - Unemployment officer, Gerhard Dorfer - Dr. Specker

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Plot : After several months of unemployment, the 24-year-old Joseph Marti is hired as a personal assistant by a strict and demanding engineer and innovator, Tobler. It is 1903 and the cinematograph is a great invention that is enchanting spectators in large cities. On the other hand the headstrong Tobler insistently continues to develop his “fantasy machine”, a miniature and inferior version of the cinematograph, and searching for sponsors and advertisers. Whilst Tobler’s business is destined to collapse owing to lack of investors, Joseph, increasingly engaged in trivial domestic errands, gradually starts to take initiative to save what’s worth saving.

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Film IMDB link : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074567/  

Film Link : https://www.cinema.de/film/der-gehuelfe,1303994.html

Film Link : https://www.cd-cc.si/en/culture/cinema/the-assistant-der-gehuelfe