Word: bergengruen
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...MATTER OF CONSCIENCE (312 pp.)-Werner Bergengruen-Thames & Hudson...
...Walled City. German Novelist Werner Bergengruen began writing A Matter of Conscience in 1929. By 1935, when the book was published, all Germany had become a kind of Cassano. But to Bergengruen's surprise, even the Nazi press praised A Matter of Conscience as "the Fiihrer novel of Renaissance times." Their mistake was probably not much greater than that of its readers who took the book as a sly but calculated assault on Hitlerism (500,000 copies have been sold on the Continent). The Grand Prince of this first of Bergengruen's 60 books to be published...
...Bergengruen knows that the Sperones of this world are few indeed. But in lucid, formal, unhurried prose, he makes plain the everlasting need for decency and good faith among imperfect men. Perfect solutions for human problems, he once said, are possible only "in the presence of God; but that should . . . not prevent us from continually trying to find a solution within the limitations of our daily lives...
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