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Martin Amis's "The Zone of Interest" - 20 views

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  • We went along. We went along, we went along with, doing all we could to drag our feet . . . but we went along.
    • warreng14
      warreng14 on 05 Oct 14
       
      This quote shows the commitment Thomsen's had for his job or duty.
  • The novel, in its most inspired moments, is a compendium of epiphanies, appalled asides, anecdotes, and radically condensed history.
  • Obersturmfuhrer Angelus (Golo) Thomsen, a mid-level Nazi officer in charge of the Buna-Werke factory, and the favored nephew of the high-ranking Nazi Martin Bormann
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  • The effect of the Holocaust isn’t singular but cumulative.
    • warreng14
      warreng14 on 05 Oct 14
       
      So is he saying that the effect of Holocaust is increasing?
  • The author’s rage at Holocaust horrors is portioned into scenes and sentences; it does not gather into a powerful swell, to overwhelm or terrify.
  • “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” as Melville declares in “Moby-Dick”; but such mightiness may be precluded by a mode of writing whose ground bass is irony rather than empathy.
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