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Joseph Roth - The Spider's Web

Lieutenant Theodor Lohse after 1 World War I "downgraded" to tutor longs, back in power and violence, as on the battlefield. As a lieutenant, commanding as he was pulled for the first time in his dull, bourgeois Duckertum - and he wants to go back. be employed by the Jewish banker, his family not to receive the respect and obedience that he expects that it hurts. Consequently, it refers to the subculture of war veterans, the war as her people have looked and never got over the defeat. Heroes of his youth are the warlords of the war, are such figures as General Ludendorff, who responds to a long fan letter, if only briefly, but all the military and the more sublime for Lohse, who just also is further still at war - against the "enemy within". And against those who want something in the way of his career.
And he sabotaged, he kills and he rises. Creates it in the brief space of imperial army, striking farm workers can mow down with machine guns, shows heart and uncompromising. And it is big, real citizens. Stands out on the mob.

workers slipped with sick Shadowstep to work as long dead who must continue to carry the curse of their earthly days work [...]; broke down on a hard pavement, the other the Rock robbed him as they walked; sickness rolled through the houses of the poor, through dusty courtyards, was in the poorly lit rooms, pierced through the skin; money slipped through the fingers of the crates, their power was, fear of the hungry fed their cruelty; fertility of their goods swelled their pride, they drank champagne in light-filled palaces, they rattled in automotive business to joy, the joy of the operation; pedestrian died under the wheels, racing Chauffeurs further dashed, and the gravediggers went on strike, the metal workers went on strike, before the food behind the shiny plate glass extended parched throats, flickering eyes, clenched from the caves of resignation, impotent fists in torn bags. (106)

And so it goes. Roth was really fascinating about his political clairvoyance - of course it all ends in the coup attempt. Like Hitler, shortly after the book marches on the field, Mr. Hall. And just as there, supported the fascists, a significant part of the bourgeoisie. As a smiling assassin
went to the Spring by Germany. Who in the Barracks did not die, the torture, escaped was not hit by the bullets of the National Citizens League and not by the clubs of the swastika, whom hunger did not hit home, who had forgotten the spy - who died en route, and the black, large raven flocks circled over his corpse. (161)

I know not really a book at the rates as good fit to the content. Overwhelmingly short sentences, the whole book a marching music to murder, with sounds, so cruel that one 'cold anger comes. So historic that you want to despair.


(6 [The Spider's Web], 6 [only learned by heart], 26 [which will Theodor]!; 32 [Ludendorff], 44 [with swastika], 57 [Specht / Beilpicke], 74 [The song], 75 [massacre], 78 [Justice] 105 [The Hours], 106! [Workers], 109 [Theodor Lohse], 121 [monocle], 123f [The workers], 136 [v. Schlieffen], 142 [The family Lohse],] 146 [Theodore's career; 153 [Theodor is] slowly and carelessly, 161! [German spring])