Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Monsterology?


Try "Creepification":

"Is it possible to have a maximum understanding of a monster without falling into the role of defending him? Ian Kershaw realises this in his massive biography of the Führer."

In reviewing Kershaw's biography of Hitlurid, Martin Rubin tries his objective hand at rendering justice to a work where egregious words may better have been left unsaid and incomprensible tracks better left untread. (Nevertheless, rest assured, this one most likely will not go unread.)

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