Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Counterfeit Traitor. In this superior spy thriller. Allied Espionage Agent William Holden outwits some believable Nazi monsters...
...Spanish binding he had only seen once and with the outlines of the foam raised by an oar in the Rio Negro the night before the Quebracho uprising." Borges contrasts this world of heightened perceptions with the real world of clumsy generalizations. In Deutsches Requiem, a commandant of a Nazi concentration camp becomes an example of an overthinking man. Stifling his feelings and perceptions, he justifies the slaughter of Jews because he believes that war purifies mankind. He rationalizes Nazi defeat by the same philosophy. "We taught the world violence and the faith of the sword," he exults...
Freed by Blindness. Born in Buenos Aires, Borges stayed to live and write, though there was plenty of reason for a writer to move. As a young lyric poet, he was condemned by the hidebound traditionalists who dominated Argentine literature. Later, when writing prose, he ran afoul of pro-Nazi Dictator Juan Peron, who banned his books. But by doggedly pursuing his writing, Borges has brought literary excitement to a country that experiences it only rarely. He has also established his own reputation among small but demanding groups of readers in Argentina and around the world. Plagued by an inherited...
Foxes & Blocks. The contributions, whether Catholic, existentialist or Communist, amount to one long indictment of tyranny. There are searing reminiscences of the Nazi occupation. The Communists are criticized less directly than the Nazis -by inference and allegory-but just as forcefully. In The Gold Fox, by Catholic Novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, a small boy imagines a gold-colored fox in his bedroom that makes him happier than the dreary, jaded human beings around...
...Counterfeit Traitor. In this superior spy thriller, Allied Espionage Agent William Holden outwits some believable Nazi monsters...