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The Temptation of Despair - Tales of the 1940s (Hardcover) Loot Price: R932
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The Temptation of Despair - Tales of the 1940s (Hardcover): Werner Sollors

The Temptation of Despair - Tales of the 1940s (Hardcover)

Werner Sollors

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In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays, works of fiction, and film--Werner Sollors makes visceral the experiences of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation, concentration camps and denazification. These tales reveal writers, visual artists, and filmmakers as well as common people struggling to express the sheer magnitude of the human catastrophe they witnessed. Some relied on traditional images of suffering and death, on Biblical scenes of the Flood and the Apocalypse. Others shaped the mangled, nightmarish landscape through abstract or surreal forms of art. Still others turned to irony and black humor to cope with the incongruities around them. Questions about guilt and complicity in a totalitarian country were raised by awareness of the Holocaust, making "After Dachau" a new epoch in Western history. The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied victory and occupation.

General

Imprint: The Belknap Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2021
First published: 2014
Authors: Werner Sollors
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05243-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN: 0-674-05243-9
Barcode: 9780674052437

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