This volume marks the apex and the culmination of the provocative
Norwegian author Jens Bjorneboe's investigations into the nature of
evil. Here the study moves to a broader canvas than in earlier
works; the enquiring narrator explores not just European history,
but the crimes committed by Europeans against the rest of humanity
in the name of expansion and conquest. Cortez' destruction of the
Aztec empire and Pisarro's of the Incas were crimes of genocide
comparable with Hitler's against the Jews, and Columbus' glorious
discovery of America becomes simply an act of colonialism: "The
Indians had discovered America long before I came." His realization
of European culpability and anticipation of the blood-bath that
will ensue when the Third World claims its rightful share of the
world's riches lead the narrator into a long plunge into the tunnel
of depression, from which he emerges in a cathartic realization
that human beings have not only an unfathomable capacity for evil,
but also an immeasurable capacity for good; man is the destroyer of
all things, but also the renewer of all things. The 25 years which
have passed since this novel was first published have not
diminished its relevance and its urgency.
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