I am reading this very, very good novel written in around 1936 about Nazism and who asks some good questions: how, when confronted with the Devil itself, and if the Devil is going to give you want you want will you react? Will you loose your conscience? Will you fight him? Will you accept the price to work with the Devil? And specially: how is a human being without conscience?
The story is the one about an actor that accept to be a comedian for the Nazis. It is a study about the mental and psychological attitude of this actor, how and why he becomes, in the story, the symbol of the people who accepted to work for the Arian cause but also the symbol itself of Nazism. It is also an analysis of Nazism itself and how Nazism “worked” on people till the beginning, when they where just a band of bandits and assassins, before taking power and also when they direct Germany and the rest of the planet to hell. It is written with a sort of humour but also in some parts with a kind of desperation.
The novel happens before the Nazis started the war but the author was able to see, very well, what will happen in the future of Germany and the world. He was able to predict the “final solution”, and the sufferance of Germans. He was also able to predict the “total war”. In the novel you can see various types of characters: the conformists, the ambitious, the hypocrites, the activists, the fanatics, the psychopaths, and how the German society was blind and living in a ponerization of terrible consequences.
It is not written with naivete. It is written with an understanding of the reality of that moment from a mind that was able to see reality itself with a clairvoyance that surprises me so much. In fact reading this book it reminds me a lot of Orwell’s 1984: how some writers are able to see the present with objectivity and the future with intelligence and a sort of visionary look that is genial. And also without fear. This is admirable.
Here some little information about the book:
The story is the one about an actor that accept to be a comedian for the Nazis. It is a study about the mental and psychological attitude of this actor, how and why he becomes, in the story, the symbol of the people who accepted to work for the Arian cause but also the symbol itself of Nazism. It is also an analysis of Nazism itself and how Nazism “worked” on people till the beginning, when they where just a band of bandits and assassins, before taking power and also when they direct Germany and the rest of the planet to hell. It is written with a sort of humour but also in some parts with a kind of desperation.
The novel happens before the Nazis started the war but the author was able to see, very well, what will happen in the future of Germany and the world. He was able to predict the “final solution”, and the sufferance of Germans. He was also able to predict the “total war”. In the novel you can see various types of characters: the conformists, the ambitious, the hypocrites, the activists, the fanatics, the psychopaths, and how the German society was blind and living in a ponerization of terrible consequences.
It is not written with naivete. It is written with an understanding of the reality of that moment from a mind that was able to see reality itself with a clairvoyance that surprises me so much. In fact reading this book it reminds me a lot of Orwell’s 1984: how some writers are able to see the present with objectivity and the future with intelligence and a sort of visionary look that is genial. And also without fear. This is admirable.
Here some little information about the book:
