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Herman Wouk – amerykański powieściopisarz, autor takich bestsellerów jak Bunt na okręcie , Wichry wojny oraz Wojna i pamięć .



Jego powieści zawierają dokładne i poruszające opisy takich wydarzeń jak Holocaust, Bitwa o Midway, brytyjskie naloty na Niemcy czy okoliczności związane z powstaniem i istnieniem w latach 1948–1977 państwa Izrael Nadzieja .

Jego rodzice byli żydowskimi imigrantami z Białorusi . Pisać zaczął jako oficer na pokładzie okrętu, niszczyciela min, na Pacyfiku, w czasie drugiej wojny światowej. Pierwszą umowę wydawniczą podpisał niedaleko wybrzeży Okinawy.

Bunt na okręcie z 1951 roku przyniósł mu nagrodę Pulitzera. Książka stała się wielkim bestsellerem i została sfilmowana z Humphreyem Bogartem w głównej roli kapitana Queega. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Maj 1915 – 17. Maj 2019   •   Natępne imiona Герман Воук, هرمان ووک
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Herman Wouk: Cytaty po angielsku

“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.”

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Herman Wouk książka The Winds of War

Źródło: The Winds of War

“This life is slow suicide, unless you read.”

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Herman Wouk książka The Caine Mutiny

Źródło: The Caine Mutiny

“I felt there’s a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I’d be a jerk not to take advantage of it.”

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Herman Wouk

On his return to Orthodox Judaism.
Time Magazine (September 5, 1955).

“You can know almost anything about G-d, provided you put the right questions to Him. You have to learn how to put the questions, and they have to be accurate and airtight. […] [M]y father, for instance, doesn't know that two atoms of hydrogen bind with one atom of oxygen to form a water molecule. Yet it's G-d's truth, and an important one. You don't know it […] you believe it because you read it somewhere, or a teacher told you. I know it. I've put the question, and He answered, straight out. G-d will answer a high school boy. He asks only that you use common sense, pay very close attention to Him, not be sloppy, and count and measure correctly. G-d ignores sloppy questions. Sloppiness is the opposite of G-dliness. G-d is exact. He is marvelously, purely exact. Theology is all slop. Moses gave the best answers you could get, three thousand years ago, and he was no theologian.”

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"Inside, Outside", p. 567 of the hardcover edition. The quote is fictional physicist Mark Herz answering the protagonist's question "What can you know about G-d? You either believe or you don't."

“We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.”

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On Genesis I as his favorite opening passage.
New York Times (June 2, 1985).

“This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn’t there at all, just a cold cloud.”

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The Winds of War teleplay, for the ABC miniseries based on the novel (September 10, 1986)).

“The imaginative artist willy-nilly influences his time. If he understands his responsibility and acts on it—taking the art seriously always, himself never quite—he can make a contribution equal to, if different from, that of the scientist, the politician, and the jurist. The anarchic artist so much in vogue now—asserting with vehemence and violence that he writes only for himself, grubbing in the worst seams of life—can do damage. But he can also be so useful in breaking up obsolete molds, exposing shams, and crying out the truth, that the broadest freedom of art seems to me necessary to a country worth living in.”

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“An Exclusive Interview with Herman Wouk,” Kirk Polking, Writer’s Digest (September 1966).

“There is a mystery about the Jews … and within this mystery lies the reason for the folk pride of the house of Abraham. This pride exists despite the disabilities that come from many centuries of ostracism.”

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This is My God: The Jewish Way of Life (1959)

“Deep in the heart of both critical Christian and alienated Jew, there is … a feeling, not even a feeling, a shadow of a notion, nothing more substantial than the pointless but compelling impulse to knock on wood when one talks of the health of children—something that says there is more to Jews than meets the eye.”

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This is My God: The Jewish Way of Life (1959)

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