The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959 - Rilegato

Klemperer, Victor

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ISBN 10: 1842127438 ISBN 13: 9781842127438

Casa editrice: Orion Pub Co, 2003

Riassunto

This final volume of Victor Klemperer’s diaries opens in 1945. After the horrors of the war, Victor and Eva’s return to their Dresden home seems like a fairytale. Victor tries to resume his distinguished academic career and joins East Germany’s Communist Party. In 1951, Eva dies; a year later, aged 70, Victor marries a student—an unlikely but successful love match. But with the growing repression of the Communist Party, and the memory of those who did not survive, Victor’s achievements ring hollow. Politics, he comes to believe, is, above all, the choice of “the lesser evil.” A masterpiece both of Holocaust literature and memoir.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Born in 1881, Victor Klemperer studied in Munich, Geneva and Paris. He served in the German Army in the First World War and was decorated. He was a professor in Dresden until he was dismissed as a result of Nazi laws in 1935. He survived the Holocaust and the war, and taught again as an academic until his death in 1960. Martin Chalmers, the translator of the first two volumes, has also translated this volume.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Orion Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1842127438
• ISBN 13: 9781842127438
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 500
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