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...Minerva, by Gustav Regler. The author, an ex-Communist, writes an absorbing memoir of his misadventures as a revolutionary, and in the process throws much light on 20th century history...
...Minerva, by Gustav Regler. This first-rate memoir of an ex-Communist, far from the customary exercise in self-justification, tells of the author's misadventures in the century's wars and revolutions, offers insight into the politics and morals...
...Gustav Regler's autobiography reads as if it were ghostwritten, it is probably because it was written by a ghost. The ghost is Regler himself, in his time a noisy political poltergeist. With a good man's dedication to his delusions, he played a man's part in inhuman situations throughout three dreadful decades...
...five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment for some obscure misdeed. From that moment on, compassion for any victim whose ears were twisted by authority animated Gustav Regler-but also led him to join political forces that knew no compassion...
...Pepper Gun. Through this tortured political tale runs a beautifully unexpected thread-a true love story. Marie Louise Vogeler, born into a bohemian-utopian-socialist circle in Germany, was first Gustav Regler's mistress, then his wife, and always his real conscience. As a young girl on the family farm, she knew left-wingers as loquacious loungers who would cut down a walnut tree under which Rilke had written a poem rather than walk farther for firewood-and knew at the same time that nothing good would come of that lot. Through her beauty and her faith...