David Albahari,Ellen Elias-BursaÄ‡
GÃ¶tz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, â€œnot a big one,â€ but one that â€œrequires efficiency.â€ Their task is to transport prisoners from a concentration camp near Belgrade in a hermetically sealed truck, in which they are asphyxiated.Â ,The nameless narrator of ,GÃ¶tz and Meyer,, a Jewish schoolÂ­teacher, discovers Wilhelm GÃ¶tz and Erwin Meyer while researching the deaths of his relatives. Overwhelmed by the horror of his discoveries as they become entangled with his own feverish imaginings, he organizes a class trip. The school bus becomes GÃ¶tz and Meyerâ€™s truck, and the teacher and his students merge with Belgradeâ€™s lost souls in a sacred act of remembering.
Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,World War II,Holocaust,War,War,World War II,European Literature,Serbian Literature,Novels,Literature,Jewish,Literature,Contemporary
GÃ¶tz and Meyer