Isbn: 9781681377582 - our philosopher (9 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A powerful novel about prejudice, violence, and complicity in Nazi Germany, this spare and evocative work interrogates shows how a group of people can slip towards extremism and barbarity in the blink of an eye.The time is the 1930s. Our philosopher is Herr Veilchenfeld,a renowned thinker and distinguished professor, who,after his sudden dismissal from the university, hasretired to live quietly in a country town in the east ofGermany. Our narrator is Hans, a clever and inquisitiveboy. He relates a mix of things he witnesses himself andthings he hears about from his father, the town doctor,who sees all sorts of people as he makes his rounds,even Veilchenfeld, with his troubled heart. Veilchenfeldis in decline, it's truehe keeps ever more to himselfbut the town is in ever better shape. After the defeat ofthe Great War and the subsequent years of poverty,things are looking up. The old, worn people are heartened to see it. The young areexhilarated. It is up to themto promote and patrol thisnew uplifting realitytomake it safe from the likesof Veilchenfeld, whose veryexistence is an affront to it.And so the doctor listens, andyoung Hans looks on.…

Zustand: New. Gert Hofmann (1931-1993) was a German writer and scholar of German literature. Originally an author of radio plays, he became one of postwar Germany&rsquos most prolific novelists, his fiction often examining the continued resonance of Nazism in Ger.