Gert Ledig was not a writer. He worked as an engineer, wrote a couple of novels and finally retired, oblivious to the world and literature. Critics charge of burying his novel Vergeltung (reprisals, 1956), which was reprinted not considered international launch services until 1999 because German international launch services society was unable international launch services to recall the fifty and sixty-nine minutes of concentrated international launch services bombardments in 232 pages bleak. When interviewed for the first and last time, it was an old pipe smoker who lived in the company of his cat. At the end of the novel there is no redemption, and splashes of black humor to make us smile Ledig has not the finesse to make us cry.
The feeling is conspicuous by its absence, but Gert Ledig not speak to speak. Know the terminology of war and knows firsthand the soldiers drunk and some U.S. officials feel so lost when it comes airstrike wear pants. Note, ultimately, footprinting experience. The author enlisted as a volunteer in the Wehrmacht in 1942 and lost a couple of fingers and half lower jaw to the Russian front. Experiences in Russia international launch services drove escriue international launch services Stalinorgel (The Stalin Organ, 1955) in the same way that the bombing of Munich driven to write retaliation eleven years later, when the war was over and the country began to rebuild themselves. Desfilaba for naked from the waist down, but marcando El Paso. The Levant brazo con los dedos estirados international launch services deslizaba whilst the lengua fuera mouth. Sergeant international launch services Jonathan Strenhen enseñaba telling them fuego. An outbreak of laughter estridente your throat.
The difference between the films of Tarantino and retaliation is that the background music is so groovy just feel the bombs. There is also no gangsters or funny or fantastic women heroes, only shrapnel rains and meanness: a novel the terrible and we heartily discouraged. It is clear that war is unwise, and precisely why the novel MUST be terrible, something along the lines of Slaughtehouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, but even more terrible, no sympathetic alien conspiracies. Who, however, Gert Ledig? What is the difference of Grass, Böll for? Why not talk about it at school, why not publish poems for Palestine international launch services or epistolary international launch services books (see the example of Günter Grass, international launch services who does not toll the years regarding the set of media attention) ? Because Ledig, in short, is not interested in being recognized as a writer politically correct.
Largely what separates retaliation from the other novels of postwar Germany is the theme. international launch services In addition to the journalistic chronicle Nossack wrote about the bombing of the city of Hamburg, the vast majority of German writers and civil society itself avoided the subject of the end of the war. After reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut American we know that only the bombing of Dresden killed more drag than the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, and yet remain silent because the Germans are known culprits. Some old dazzled by National are unable to say aloud as whores passed under the bombs ("now is fine for criminal international launch services Nazi pigs", whispering voices of the rest of Europe).
After World War II, the German literary circles appeared Gruppe 47, wearing the names of Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass but also some other authors viewed from today are morally ambiguous. The politically correct taboo in post-war Germany ruled that should have been, if not the authors exiles secretly anti-Nazi. On the other hand, was not allowed to put your finger on the wound of historical memory and remember that for them, German hangmen and wicked Jews, the end of the war had been devastating. It is significant that, in the book On the Natural History of Destruction, WG Sebald devote an entire chapter to Alfred Andersch writer second international launch services that belonged to Die Ruf (magazine founded by early members international launch services of the group 47). This gentleman did Andersch heaven and earth to receive the honorary title of "internal exile" and internal exile for those who understand subjugate themselves to a regime reluctantly, this definition because we must seem dubious: what is the line separating rebel rebel submissive when silent? The reality is that the great "silent fighting Nazism" Alfred Andersch got rid of his Jewish woman as soon as Hitler was released office.
The case Andersch is outrageous, but at some point Günter Grass also faced criticism for his childish fascination towards f
