With ‘The area of interest “(Anagram) Amis returns to Nazism after’ The arrow of time ‘, in this case giving a voice to the victims and executioners and with tones of black humor.
Amis reconstructs the world from three points: Golo, a young officer Nephew Nazi leader Martin Bormann, who comes to a death camp to work on the implementation of factory with slave labor; Hannah, the wife of the commander of the camp, the grotesque Paul Doll, and Szmull Sonderkommando, one of those Jews who collaborated with the executioners
Rejects Amis. that his novel can be assimilated to classical comedy, Shakespeare or Jane Austen type, which “will put us in an environment in which a man meets a woman, are attracted and overcome some difficulties imposed by a previous generation, reaching a hope situation and get married. “
” area of interest “can not talk about comedy, precise Amis, but satire.
” Comedy causes some laughter, and the laughter we associate with joy, a positive state and some degree of frivolity, but laughter is not always happiness, you can laugh to scorn, contempt, and there entered the satire, which is no more a militant irony in which you want to destroy what makes you laugh. “
The use irony was entirely appropriate in the case of Nazi Germany, he says, because” there was many pathetic, grotesque and is better laugh with a scornful laugh things “and not casual, he adds, that” the great tyrants of history have feared more pain laugh. “
While some see a Szmull as a collaborator, for the author of ‘The State of England’ “the Sonderkommando were victims 100 percent but 1,000 percent, because they were present when the Jews came to the fields, they were fed to convince newcomers who would be well treated, but its function was to collect the bodies of the gas chambers, or start gold fillings from the teeth “.
Remember Amis words Primo Levi, who “and said he did not judge the Sonderkommando, because they were like the other Jews, but simply sadder; They were victims as witnesses of atrocities, “and also the Nazis went further in his perversity to force the Jewish councils in the ghettos to select those Jews who were taking
To build the character of Paul Doll Amis departed from Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz he wrote his memoirs, in which he speaks of his wife, his five children, his house and garden.
” Although attempts to justify, just seeing the kind of stupid and pompous character who was, he speaks in the same tone of the difficulties with the ovens that of his wife and children. Therefore I Amis- says only that enhance the ridiculous and strange character. “
Think the author at first perhaps may have some banality of evil, but” as they began to kill, became absolute monsters. “
In the beginning of the novel, admits Amis, is attempting to answer a question,” the initial shiver ” “Can there be love in a situation of totalitarian madness? and although initially had no answer at the end of the book the answer is no, because the counterpoint of love can be hatred and death, but in Nazi Germany are the two, and is too much love fruitful in these two environments “.
In the waking, dreamlike, which is engulfing the writer, Amis was an image that is at the origin of” area of interest “:” love at first sight with a rustic background, rural in which something was wrong; a woman who disappeared with her two daughters; a carriage, water pumps and a traveling gallows. “
In reference to your previous novel on Nazism, ‘Time’s Arrow’, Amis admits that that was fantastic guy and in this case it was clear that it would be of social realism, and also incorporated in this second look at the vision victims of the executioners.
The novel has come to Spain preceded by a controversy by refusing to publish by their common editors in France and Germany.
Martin Amis refutes those who think they never should write fiction about the Holocaust, “as if I had to Auschwitz input signal barred from writers, “something from the philosophical point of view it makes no sense:” Fiction is free and it is important to stay because if not it is a threat. Every novelist has to use the freedom you have to launch the messages you want, “he concludes.
Barcelona (Spain)
EFE
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