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La storia di una donna famosa e la Storia di una nazione, raccontate in cinque capitoli, autonomi per linguaggio e spazio temporale, con al centro di ognuno una figura femminile. Nel primo e nell'ultimo, Magda Goebbels, con meticolosità e controllo, prepara l'uscita di scena della propria famiglia, nell'atto finale del regime nazista. Negli altri capitoli, prima seguiamo Magda nel periodo duro della sua infanzia con una madre di dubbia moralità e in quello dell'adolescenza in un convento dove si pratica una religiosità rigida e, a volte, brutale; poi conosciamo la madre, figura superficiale, anaffettiva e un po' cialtrona. Infine, attraverso le pagine del diario della figlia maggiore, Helga Goebbels, entriamo nel bunker di Hitler, dove si consumano gli ultimi giorni della famiglia e del regime. Il romanzo intreccia storie parallele di madri e figlie e i loro sguardi differenti nei confronti della vita, della Storia, dei rapporti tra i due sessi.
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- Pagine: 112
- Data di uscita: 22-03-2018
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Books talk to each other and call forth each other from the shelves into our hands. Books you hadn't even heard of when you began. So All Hell Let Loose , Max Hastings' brilliant one-volume history of World War Two, led to Ian Kershaw’s harrowing The End - and then I had to see Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Leggi tutto
I may be judging this a bit harshly with just three stars as I really wanted to give it four, but I think if you're going to produce a novella you need to be more critical in what you include and what you don't. This book is a fictionalised snapshot of the life of Magda Goebbels and focuses on how he Leggi tutto
GERMANY: I initially came to the story of Magda Goebbles via the film Untergang, and her story is certainly the stuff of terrifying legend. The author in this novella has combined fact and fiction to make a compelling story, evocatively set in Germany. Much of it takes place in the last few days of
I wish this was a longer book. Split into sections and narrated by different characters (including Magda's mother and daughter) It feels as though the writer is just beginning to find the character's voice or the narrative momentum when the section comes to an end. Having said that the author still
I struggled to rate this one ......somewhere between 3.5 and 4 stars. An original idea but somehow I couldn't really believe in the character......even tho it a (fictionalised )biography of Magda Goebbels. A brave attempt to get under the skin of a complex and evil woman
This is a brief glimpse into the psychology of one of Adolf Hitler's biggest fans and wife to his Propaganda Minister, Magda Goebbels. This novella is mercifully short, and came highly recommended as a glimpse into how an abused, delusional person becomes complicit in incredible atrocities. I wanted Leggi tutto
This factionalized portrait of Magda Goebbels did not dig deep, it’s not a biography. It shows us instead how Magda might have become an ambitious leader of a women’s Nazi group, devoted to Hitler, and who eventually does the unthinkable, touching on the instability in her childhood, and then the hu Leggi tutto
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