Omladina bez boga
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- Author: Von Horvath Odon
- Publisher: Futura publikacije
- ISBN: 9788671881531
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- Condition: New book
- Code: 84666
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Omladina bez boga
Von Horvath Odon
Summary
Odon von Horvath: Youth without God
The novel Youth without God - which Ödön von Horváth wrote in exile, fleeing from the Nazis - was included in the list of harmful and undesirable literary works by the Gestapo in 1938. The nameless narrator is a high school history and geography teacher, a man whose job and future pension are secured. But when he reprimands an arrogant student - the son of the owner of a large concern - for the racist remark that "all blacks are damned, cowards and lazy!" (which at that time echoed propaganda from powerful radios), was accused of "sabotage of the homeland" because he taught that "blacks are people" too, and his fourteen-year-old students rebelled, demanding that he no longer teach them. This dramatic and tense novel continues with the class going camping in untouched nature; although it included pre-military training, it actually served the moral education of youth for war. There, a student is murdered, and the teacher must face his own role in it all, even at the cost of losing a safe and comfortable old age. A sensational trial follows, with a detective reconstruction of the committed murder and the uncovering of the real killer. In this process, the teacher - once an adaptable man, suitable for a fascist state, who left God even in puberty because he could not understand how He allows a world war - by confessing his own crime of murder, he becomes aware of the moral law within himself and, not without doubts, begins to believe in God. This teacher's realization of the truth can be interpreted as resistance to the time of the dictatorship of lies: conscience versus Nazism. The novel dissects the moral state of a society poisoned by National Socialist ideology, in which the youth are godless because they grow up not understanding what justice is and because they lack the courage to speak the truth. She believes in the lies written on the banners, repeats what the radio constantly repeats, lives in a paradise of stupidity, and her ideal is contempt. It is a time when masses of characterless people, under the command of idiots, discard their longing for morality as worthless waste and fall prostrate before the brutality of reality.
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- Author: Von Horvath Odon
- Publisher: Futura publikacije
- Year of publication:2016
- Place of publication:Novi Sad
- Pages:300
- Dimensions:12.5x20.5 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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