Europe central
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Word Count
202,750 words, Guess
Page Count
811 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveeuropecentral00voll
- ISBN-100143036599
- ISBN-139780143036593
- OCLC Control Number62680123
- Better World Books9780143036593
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL13636194M
Classifications
- LCCPS3572.O395E97 2006
Description
In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century. Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional—a young German who joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich laboring under Stalinist oppression. Through these and other lives, Vollmann offers a daring and mesmerizing perspective on human actions during wartime.
Description
Vollmann presents a mesmerizing series of intertwined paired stories that compare and contrast the moral decisions made by various figures (some famous, some infamous, some unknown) associated with the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR from 1900-1968.
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