Theater of Cruelty
Art, Film, and the Shadows of War
Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, by what makes the human species behave atrociously. In Theater of Cruelty the acclaimed author of The Wages of Guilt and Year Zero: A History of 1945 once again turns to World War II to explore that question-to the Nazi occupation of Paris, the Allied bombing of German cities, the international controversies over Anne Frank's diaries, Japan's militarist intellectuals and its kamikaze pilots. One way that people respond to power and cruelty, Buruma argues, is through art, and the art that most interests him reveals the dark impuls…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-59017-812-6
- EAN: 9781590178126
- Produktnummer: 16276309
- Verlag: New York Review Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 425 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'221 KB
- Abbildungen: EIGHT PAGES OF COLOR AND BLACK & WHITE IMAGES
Über den Autor
Ian Buruma is the author of many books, including The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (1995), The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (1996), Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (2006), and Year Zero: A History of 1945 (2013). He is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications.
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