EAN: 9781681378145

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

When World War I breaks out a young architecture student in Munich does everything in his power to avoid being enlisted into the German military in this perceptive wickedly humorous novel by a prominent twentieth-century writer journalist and film critic. Siegfried Kracauer’s Ginster is the great World War I novel you’ve never heard of. Here the sheer horrors are kept offstage as in Greek tragedy and merely reported from time to time. The setting is the German home front. Its Chaplinesque antihero—Ginster—spends the war gumming up the German war machine as he maneuvers to stay out of its clutches and save his own skin. Which he does however there is a deeper struggle going on between Ginster’s dreamy self-absorption and the pitiless organization of society war or no war. Ginster has no wish to do anything. Alas his reveries are forever being interrupted by the demands of an other-minded world. All the scenes of Ginster are well to the rear of the military action yet with Kracauer narrating military language saturates all aspects of civilian life in the homeland. Ginster’s nearest and dearest are so gung-ho he feels that he’s at the front when he visits them. War the author seems to say is merely ordinary life seen from the back instead of the front. As a new European war darkens our horizon one no more expected than was World War I Kracauer’s novel feels timelier than ever.

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