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.
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warreng14 on 05 Oct 14This quote shows the commitment Thomsen's had for his job or duty.
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The novel, in its most inspired moments, is a compendium of epiphanies, appalled asides, anecdotes, and radically condensed history.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
