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How to Quiet a Vampire A Sotie

How to Quiet a Vampire A Sotie
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  • ISBN-13: 9780810117204
  • ISBN: 0810117207
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press

AUTHOR

Pekic, Borislav, Dickey, Stephen M., Rakic, Bogdan

SUMMARY

Published to acclaim in 1977, this controversial novel of ideas follows Konrad Rutkowski-professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer-as he returns to the scene of his war crimes determined to renounce, or perhaps justify, his Nazi past. In a series of letters to a brother-in-law, Rutkowski lays out his ambivalent reactions to war and unthinkable violence, connecting his own swirling ideas to those of some of the major figures of European thought: Plato, St. Augustine, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, and others. But the novel is more than an intellectual meditation. Peki was himself a frequent political agitator and occasional prisoner, and he drew on his first hand knowledge of police methods and life under totalitarianism to paint a chilling portrait of an intellectual acting as a tool of repression. At the same time he questions whether Rutkowski's ideology puts him outside the philosophical tradition he so admires-or if the line separating it from totalitarianism is not as clear as we like to think.Pekic, Borislav is the author of 'How to Quiet a Vampire A Sotie' with ISBN 9780810117204 and ISBN 0810117207.

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