Word: germania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting, at the junction of two rivers, is magnificent. Man botched the job of doing anything with it. Grand avenues and impressive architecture, though necessary to a great city, do not satisfy the equation. If the Third Reich had lasted another ten years, Berlin, which Hitler planned to rename Germania, would have become the world's most monumental city. It also would have been the most monumentally dull. In fact, it became second-rate on Jan. 30, 1933, when Hitler took power. A city cannot be both great and regimented. Blessed with culture, history and size, Moscow, Shanghai...
...novel's distinction is the rich symbolic resonances woven around Brace's disintegration. Unwillingly representing the waning influence of the U.S. in Europe, Brace is seen partly as a throwback to the last of the Roman legionnaires in Germania. Making love to a local landowner's wife, he is the incarnation of Woden offering himself to the goddess of the forest. Even the shepherd Brace defends is not merely an old reprobate but a kind of Ur-brigand descended from the race of Jacob. As for the fox: Is he a fox? He may be Brace...