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Sto caricando le informazioni... L'assassino delle vedove (1995)di Pavel Kohout
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Étrange enquête policière ou se croisent plusieurs effondrements, plusieurs compromissions, plusieurs errances. ( ) Kohout is a Czech writer who was one of the leaders of the 1968 Prague Spring revolt. His work was ruthlessly suppressed for twenty years. This mystery of his is set in Prague during the later years of W.W. II. The complexities of wartime Czechoslovakia are rendered as an engrossing mystery story. A psychopathic killer is murdering widows. The Gestapo take little interest until a German resident is killed and the investigation begins to show a pattern and links to other killings. Erwin Buback, until now an unquestioning Gestapo agent and Jan Morava, a Czech police detective, are determined to track down the killer. Buback’s wife and daughter had been killed in a stray bombing of the farm where they had been sent to prevent just such an occurrence. He had his wife had always been loyal Nazis with little reason to question Hitler’s judgment until his invasion of Russia and Hilda, a teacher, brings home a map showing the vast expanses of Russia compared to tiny Europe. “A cartographic anomaly,” is Buback’s response. But in the midst of the investigation, Buback become haunted by the deviant thought. “Could Hitler somehow derive some perverted satisfaction from the worldwide butchery he’d unleashed as the unknown murderer did from his slaughter of women?” The story becomes an allegory for the poisonous influence of ideology as the killer's motives become revealed as being committed in the name of a higher calling. The hunt for the killer breaks down in the chaos of the Allies’ inexorable pressure from the east and west. The world is turned upside down as right becomes wrong and evil becomes good as “the need for retribution clashed with the fear of becoming just like the men who so recently murdered their loved ones.” Excelente novela que crece a medida que dejas de pensar en la trama y te centras en el ambiente y en los personajes. En la Praga ocupada, meses antes del fin de la guerra, un policía alemán y otro checo unen sus fuerzas para perseguir a un asesino en serie... ¿tópico? Pues no. Al menos, no en lo importante. El autor nos desgrana un ambiente extraño, detalle las reacciones de la gente cuando todos los límites sociales se sobrepasan -el momento en que la caída del Reich es cierta- mientras algunas personas tratan de mantener la cordura y cierto orden social. No hay personajes tópicos, tanto la "flor de loto" Jan Morava (qué hermosa y sencilla historia de amor) como el policía de la Gestapo Buback, son tipos complejos. Por no hablar de las mujeres, Jitka y Grete, y del asesino. En fin. Muy recomendable. Kurz vor Kriegsende wird im besetzten Prag die Witwe eines deutschen Generals sadistisch ermordet. Die Gestapo gibt den Fall - unter deutscher Kontrolle - an die tschechische Kriminalpolizei: im Grund, um deren Apparat und möglichen Widerstand vor der näherrückenden Front auszuschalten. Weitere Morde nach dem gleichen Horrormuster folgen, auch an tschechischen Frauen. In atemberaubender Dramaturgie verknüpft Kohout (s. zuletzt BA 7/92; 4/93) Elemente des Politthrillers mit denen des Krimis. Das blindwütige Töten der Nazis und das des irren Mörders - unterscheiden sie sich? Als die Deutschen fliehen, gerät auch eine tschechische Gruppe - innerhalb der bewundernswerten Versuche, Menschlichkeit, Ordnung und Recht zu bewahren - in den Rausch besinnungslosen Tötens. Innerhalb des Genres - trotz auch schriller Töne und trivialer Einschübe - ein ebenso faszinierender wie irritierender, bemerkenswerter Roman, der Leser in vielen Bibliotheken fesseln wird. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In the downward spiral of the Third Reich's final days, a sadistic serial killer is stalking the streets of Prague. The unlikely pair of Jan Morava, a rookie Czech police detective, and Erwin Buback, a Gestapo agent questioning his own loyalty to the Nazi's, set out to stop the murderer. Weaving a delicate tale of human struggle underneath the surface of a thrilling murder story, Kohout has created a memorable work of fiction Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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