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...writer of fiction to counterfeit is genius. Merely reminding us won't work, because we haven't been there. Is genius simply a powerful flow of really good ideas? Doesn't help; we don't know where even moderately good ideas come from. Robert Harris, whose chilling novel Fatherland imagined what Europe might have been like had World War II stalled out in an English defeat and a U.S. withdrawal, makes a brave try at construing genius, the light bulb over the unicorn's head, in his new novel, Enigma (Random House; 320 pages; $23). The results are worthy...
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This is the intriguing alternate world that Robert Harris created in his 1992 best seller, Fatherland. His dystopia is the setting for a tense political thriller. When several longtime Nazi officials turn up dead, the investigation begins to unravel a horrifying secret: the "resettlement" of the Jews during the war was just the cover story for another horrifying crime...
...Fatherland was originally intended to be a big-budget Hollywood film. Instead it has been turned into a relatively modest HBO movie (which debuted last weekend). That fate, however, is hardly to be lamented. The TV-size budget, for one thing, has forced director Christopher Menaul (Prime Suspect) to be resourceful. Instead of a lavish (and possibly campy) physical re- creation of the new Greater Germany, he suggests it in small, swift strokes. Tour buses carrying Western reporters on their first visit since the war roll past billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also...
...that didn't turn out the way our history books tell us: The Nazis won and they successfully covered up all evidence of the Holocaust. That's the setting for a fictional thriller premiering on HBO Saturday. An SS officer and an American reporter stumble upon evidence that the fatherland's version may not reflect the truth. How they uncover the whole truth follows. Comes recommended byTIME television critic Richard Zoglin.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...