Fiction | Literatur
Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor
Alexander Kluge
© Suhrkamp Verlag
In 48 stories, Alexander Kluge addresses the Holocaust and how it is dealt with. He dedicates his book to Fritz Bauer, former State Attorney General of Hessen, who initiated the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. With his account of harrowing individual destinies and of bureaucratic decisions taken on an unimaginable scale under the eyes of the world community, Kluge also poses the question of guilt and responsibility.
Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut