Mephisto in the Third Reich : : Literary Representations of Evil in Nazi Germany / / Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein.
The association of Nazism with the symbol of ultimate evil – the devil – can be found in the works of Klaus and Thomas Mann, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Rolf Hochhuth. He appears either as Satan of the Judeo-Christian tradition, or as Goethe’s Mephisto. The devil is not only a metaphor, but a central p...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction Introduction
- Chapter One. The Image of the Devil in Western Culture The Image of the Devil
- Chapter Two. Mephisto by Klaus Mann
- Chapter Three. I and I by Else Lasker-Schüler
- Chapter Four. Germany and the Germans by Thomas Mann
- Chapter Five The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth
- Chapter Six. The Holocaust and the Future
- Bibliography
- Index