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The Father Of A Murderer
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Author : Alfred Andersch
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1994
The Father Of A Murderer written by Alfred Andersch and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
The Father of a Murderer takes place in a classroom of the Wittelsbach Gymnasium in 1920s Munich over the course of a single Greek lesson. Head-master Himmler (the father of Heinrich Himmler) enters the classroom, apparently to observe the students' progress. However, he soon takes over the lesson himself. Himmler mercilessly tests the boys, but his real purpose is to teach a political lesson to the German youths, and through them to settle accounts with their fathers. In the venerable tradition of German school novels (Musil's Young Torless and Heinrich Mann's Professor Garbage), this tale can be read as an account of routine academic sadism, but the essence of the story lies in the fine nuances of speech, thought, and behavior that illustrate, in the most sophisticated way, how the rise of Hitler was possible. Never before translated into English, this chilling novel was Andersch's final work. Published posthumously in German in 1980, it is considered by many to be his masterpiece.
The Problem Of Conscience In The Novels Of Alfred Andersch Microform
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Author : Elroy J. Carlson
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Canada
Release Date : 1982
The Problem Of Conscience In The Novels Of Alfred Andersch Microform written by Elroy J. Carlson and has been published by National Library of Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Conscience in literature categories.
Critical evaluations of works by Alfred Andersch virtually ignore conscience, a topic which Andersch addresses in each of his five novels. Conscience is based on values. In Western society there are two views on the origin of values. One view is based on humanistic ideals which hold that values are an inherent part of man, centered in his intellect. The other perspective anchors the source of values in a divine being, who exists independently of man and who uses various means to transmit these values to man. Andersch reveals the bases for his own conscience in Die Kirschen der Freiheit . It is obvious that his values are derived from the humanistic tradition. He eschews not only religion but also economic and political doctrine, which in Western society have taken on an orthodoxy as inflexible as religious dogma. In Sansibar oder der letzte Grund the contest between humanistically based conscience and religiously and politically inspired conscience takes place among several characters. By using a large cast of characters, Andersch demonstrates the consequences of a conscience based on each view. His message continues to be that a deterministic source of values is not a sound basis for an effective conscience. The story of Franziska in Die Rote demonstrates the same point, although the narrative is less direct. Franziska's conscience takes direction from outside, bourgeois sources. Unfortunately, her dependency on direction from outside sources is so strong that she is unable to attain the independent life she wants. In Efraim Andersch demonstrates the consequences of having no conscience at all. Efraim possesses no central core of values. He believes that coincidence and caprice rule men's lives and that it is useless for man to try to influence events. As a result, Efraim leads a rootless, uncommitted existence, which brings him no satisfaction. Through Efraim, Andersch reiterates the view that a humanistically based conscience is essential for a truly moral life. Winterspelt repeats this message through character types borrowed from previous Andersch novels. It is clear to Andersch that man devises religious and political doctrines to explain and codify human behavior. It is equally clear to him that such codifications are perceived all too often as ends in themselves, as immutable loci to which man subjugates personal will in order to uphold the notion that a higher authority exists to pass judgement on man's actions. Andersch sees great danger in elevating these humanly contrived doctrines to the level where they become deterministic and dictate human action by a sequence of causes independent of free will. To him it is important to maintain the correct perception of such mental constructs. He believes the human act precedes the justification for it; the rightness or wrongness of an act is judged later upon reflection by man. To Andersch there is no god in the Christian sense who stands in judgement over human actions. Nor is there an economic or political order which determines how man should behave. In Andersch's view, such a god and such doctrines are created by man because of his need to provide explanations for human acts. Andersch perceives man as the ultimate source of the values represented by these mental constructs and the conscience to which the values give rise. He suggests in his novels that it is far healthier for man to believe in himself than in a divine spirit or alluring doctrine. From this belief will presumably come a more honest and therefore better basis for conscience.
Flight To Afar
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Author : Alfred Andersch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Flight To Afar written by Alfred Andersch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
A Pastor protecting an ancient icon, a communist and a young Jewess attempting to escape Germany in the late 1930's come together in a northern fishing village. Their encounter leads to their mutual dependence and self discovery
The Cherries Of Freedom
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Author : Alfred Andersch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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A German soldier deserts in Italy during the Second World War, and for the first time, experiences real freedom. A classic of post war Germany.
Lines In Space
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Author : Catherine Marie Purdie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Lines In Space written by Catherine Marie Purdie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Liberty in literature categories.
Efraim S Book
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Author : Alfred Andersch
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1994
Efraim S Book written by Alfred Andersch and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
Efraim's Book is the sophisticated, offbeat novel about the peculiar society of post-World-II Berlin. Its hero George Efraim is a Jewish reporter who has fought for the British on the Italian front and lost both parents to Auschwitz. He returns home to Berlin in 1962 for the first time since the war to investigate the wartime disappearance of his editor's daughter, only to begin writing a novel, which helps him "to embark on a certain arrangement of signs with the help of which I hope to chart my position." Like the great German novels of Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll, Alfred Andersch's Efraim's Book grapples with the legacy of World War II and the Holocaust in all its horror and sad humanity. A troubling yet often humorous book, it offers a poignant account of the traumatized German state.
Winterspelt
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Author : Alfred Andersch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Winterspelt written by Alfred Andersch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Fiction categories.
Comrades
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Author : Felix Römer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-13
Comrades written by Felix Römer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-13 with History categories.
Comrades is a new history of the mentalities of ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers, based on recently discovered intelligence records from the American interrogation camp Fort Hunt near Washington, where German prisoners of war were interned and secretly listened in on during the Second World War. US Military Intelligence captured tens of thousands of open conversations between Wehrmacht soldiers and recorded them in verbatim transcripts. The resulting collection offers new insights into the thinking and worldviews of ordinary members of Hitler's armed forces - their attitudes towards National Socialism and the 'Führer', their views of the war and their experiences during the fighting, and their knowledge of and participation in war crimes and the Holocaust. The accompanying biographical information reveals how their mindsets were connected to their individual paths through the Third Reich, the Wehrmacht, and the war. The book offers a nuanced and realistic account of life in the Wehrmacht, based on unique source material, which allows us to see the Second World War through the eyes of the protagonists.
Contemporary German Fiction Writers
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Author : Wolfgang Elfe
language : en
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
Release Date : 1988
Contemporary German Fiction Writers written by Wolfgang Elfe and has been published by Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Essays on West German, East German and Swiss-German authors who experienced Nazi rule and World War II as adults. Entries examine these writers coming to terms with the experience of fascism, and how they were often the conscience of a society that wasinclined to forget it recent past. The lives and works of these writers provide an insight not only into German literature but also into several decades of German history.
Efraim S Book
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Author : Alfred Andersch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Efraim S Book written by Alfred Andersch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with German literature categories.