Is it frivolous to write a little book about the Nazis?

"The Great Dictator" by and with Charlie Chaplin was established in 1940. Chaplin wrote in 1964 that he would never have killed her. He already knew the true extent of the Nazi horror. Assembly: Laura Kaufmann

One could define history, or more precisely history, so historiography, according to the spirit of this column of consumption also as literature of utility, ladies and gentlemen. Because history is also a narration, a story. The question is: is it also a fiction? Or are stories without fictionalization possible?

French author and filmmaker Eric Vuillard tells the story in a very particular way, namely the rhapsodic "Vuillard method": in his latest highly acclaimed book "The Order of the day ", in English:" The agenda ", last fall received the most important French literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, the establishment of National Socialism in the period before the Second World War [19659005] so to speak the prelude to a human catastrophe focuses on a few moments between 1933 and 1938.

Insignificance becomes history [19659011] Some of these moments are known, others less, almost even relatively insignificant the first look. But all these key moments have in common that in them, the mechanisms of power with the potentials and limits of the actors and especially the mere coincidence of what posterity then called the history . Vuillard's book of just under 120 pages is not a novel, but a narrative of history, based on a thorough study of sources. Narrative freedom does not reside in figures or dialogues, but in the principle of composition: the episodes in which events condense in some way intersect one another in almost kinematics

Banality and Power

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On the other hand, what other author, Khalid Khalifa, who lives in his native Syria, writes in his most recent novel, "Death is a laborious affair": " Banality has always been part of Will have power " And the writer Michael Köhlmeier recently stated in his speech at the time A ceremony of commemoration of the Austrian Parliament for the victims of National Socialism: "For the great wicked have never arrived in a step, but in many small." Which means that the banal is not frivolous in itself, if we consider the reconstruction of the past. Or as Eric Vuillard writes in "The Agenda": " Nothing is innocent in the art of telling stories."

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