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Lädt ... Unter Druck (1992)von George Steiner
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This collection of short stories includes Proofs, a literary thriller which explores the conflict between fact and fiction in life and literature. Also included are Noel, Noel, Desert Island Disks and Conversation Piece. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The proofreader is in a Marxist study group, but each evening he sees the news of the crumbling of the Communist edifice throughout Eastern Europe and Russia - the doubts begin. Into the story is added an eloquent debate that the proofreader carries on with Carlo, a priest and friend from his study group, over the relative merits of Communism, capitalism and Christianity. In this discussion neither side seems to fare well but the proofreader, in spite of the news and debate, will not give up his belief in Marxism. This suggests that the blindness is two-fold -- a Dante-esque prescription for a man who devoted his life to getting texts right. In a fiction written with as meticulous and spare a style as the protagonist proofreader himself exhibits we have a thoroughly Steineresque commentary on the twentieth century, the power of belief and the nature of the humane. ( )