Word: bourneman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Regine worked for the state, producing documentary films about socialist life. This occupation allowed her to inform the masses. Such work, she concedes, gave her "a touch of the self-congratulatory condescension intellectuals feel in indulging the less gifted." Though such thinking seems arrogant, it represented the dedication of Bourneman's intellectuals to socialism, though not to the state itself...
...Bourneman emphasizes that virtually all of his interviewees separated themselves from the bureaucratic evils of the state. He includes plenty of emotional and philosophical inferences to prove this point, and they strengthen this book by making these though processes accessible. "Frau Gruner's socialism always exhibited a critical distance," Borneman writes. "She learned to be skeptical of any form of established wisdom...
...Bourneman has clearly investigated the lifestyles of East Germans in depth and conveys this information with skill. After the Wall is not a complex, murky book about the evils of communism and its dark duplicity. Instead the author presents poignant episodes from the lives of people who experienced and endured East German society. The reader needs no German history to understand the compelling story which unfolds here...
| 1 |