A Sotie
Klappentext:This controversial novel of ideas, first published in Serbian in 1977, follows Konrad Rutkowski, a professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer, as he attempts to both renounce and justify his Nazi past. In a series of confessional letters to his brother-in-law, Rutkowski lays out his ambivalent reactions to war and violence, invoking the major currents of European philosophical thought to reach a moral compromise with his past.
A chilling insight into the logic and psychology of modern totalitarianism, Borislav Pekić's somber satire asks just how clear the line separating intellectual tradition from political opppression really is.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Borislav Pekić was born in 1930 in Podgorica, Yugoslavia. A frequent political agitator and an occasional prisoner, Pekić worked as a screenwriter and an editor of a literary journal before publishing his first novel, at age thirty-five. In 1971 he began a self-imposed exile in London, where he died in 1992. His novels iclude The Time of Miracles and The Houses of Belgrade, both published by Northwestern University Press.
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