Title: Unknown at this address - Kathrine-Kressmann Taylor - book
Summary :
August 1, 1933. "You're a liberal, Martin. You see things in the long term. I know you can't let yourself be drawn into this madness by a popular movement which, however strong it may be, is fundamentally murderous." August 18, 1933. "You say we persecute liberals, Max, that we burn books. You should wake up: does the surgeon who removes a cancer display this silly sentimentality? He cuts to the quick, without qualms.
Yes, we are cruel. Birth is a brutal act; our rebirth is too." 1932. Martin Schulse, a German, and Max Eisenstein, an American Jew, are art dealers in California. They are also united by more than affectionate - fraternal - ties. The former decides to return to Germany. It is their fictional correspondence between 1932 and 1934 that constitutes this little book, unpublished in France, written by an American in 1938, and hailed at the time in the United States as a masterpiece.
Incisive, short, and with a gripping ending, this book accurately captures history. It is a snapshot, a photograph taken on the fly that describes, without complacency or over-the-top didacticism, an intimate and collective tragedy: that of Nazi Germany.
