How to Quiet a Vampire (Hardcover)

Published to acclaim in 1977, this controversial novel of ideas follows Konrad Rutkowski - professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer - as he returns to the scene of his war crimes determined to renounce, or perhaps justify, his Nazi past. In a series of letters to a brother-in-law, Rutkowski lays out his ambivalent reactions to war and unthinkable violence, connecting his own swirling ideas to those of some of the major figures of European thought: Plato, St. Augustine, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, and others. But the novel is more than an intellectual meditation. Pekic was himself a frequent political agitator and occasional prisoner, and he drew on his first hand knowledge of police methods and life under totalitarianism to paint a chilling portrait of an intellectual acting as a tool of repression. At the same time he questions whether Rutkowski's ideology puts him outside the philosophical tradition he so admires - or if the line separating it from totalitarianism is not as clear as we like to think.

General

Imprint:	Northwestern University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Writings from an Unbound Europe
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	April 2005
Translators:	Bogdan Rakic
Authors:	Borislav Pekic
Translators:	Stephen M. Dickey
Dimensions:	203 x 121 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	456
ISBN-13:	978-0-8101-1719-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > General
LSN:	0-8101-1719-3
Barcode:	9780810117198

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