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Youth Without God

✍ Scribed by Odon Von Horvath

Book ID: 112047002
Publisher: Melville House
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 330 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781612191201

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✦ Synopsis

Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years.

This last book by Ödon von Horvath, one of the 20th-century's great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience.

An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with "a safe job with a pension at the end of it." But, when he reprimands a student for a racist comment, he is accused of "sabotage of the Fatherland," and his students revolt. A murder follows, and the teacher must face his role in it, even if it costs him everything.

Horvath's book both points to its immediate context--the brutalizing conformity of a totalitarian state, the emptiness of faith in the time of the National Socialists--and beyond, to the struggles of individuals everywhere against societies that offer material security in exchange for the...

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