How to Quiet a Vampire Hardback
by Borislav Pekic
Part of the Writings from an Unbound Europe series
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Published to acclaim in 1977, this controversial novel of ideas follows Konrad Rutkowski - professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer - as he returns to the scene of his war crimes determined to renounce, or perhaps justify, his Nazi past.
In a series of letters to a brother-in-law, Rutkowski lays out his ambivalent reactions to war and unthinkable violence, connecting his own swirling ideas to those of some of the major figures of European thought: Plato, St.
Augustine, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, and others. But the novel is more than an intellectual meditation.
Pekic was himself a frequent political agitator and occasional prisoner, and he drew on his first hand knowledge of police methods and life under totalitarianism to paint a chilling portrait of an intellectual acting as a tool of repression.
At the same time he questions whether Rutkowski's ideology puts him outside the philosophical tradition he so admires - or if the line separating it from totalitarianism is not as clear as we like to think.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:456 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2005
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- ISBN:9780810117198
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:456 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780810117198
