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| | village voice > theater > David Auburn Adapts the Diary of One Who Didn't Disappear by Michael Feingold |
 | | David Auburn Adapts the Diary of One Who Didn't Disappear |
 | | Like Victor Klemperer, his older and wiser counterpart in Germany, Sebastian took the risk of keeping a diary, noting the daily collapse of buildings and emotional resources while the Holocaust rolled its blood-soaked wave right up to his door—and then miraculously stopped, sparing his life and preserving his journals for posterity. |
 | | Playwright David Auburn's compression provides a stop-motion series of snapshots, following Sebastian's growth from a cockily ambitious, skirt-chasing young journalist into the harrowed, somber adult who's discovered himself—and his survival skills—while watching mentors, friends, and lovers betray all of intellectual Europe's pre-war principles. |
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