The absolute evil
José Luis Muñoz Algaida Ed, 2008 pp 309
20 euros
Some discovered the Nazi concentration camps through that awful book called Deportation. Later we had the opportunity to read the bestseller by Gerald Green, Holocaust which later became highly successful television series in the 70's. All German efficiency check in extermination machinery as well as in the war machine - see German secret weapons Briand Ford.
The absolute evil of José Luis Muñoz speaks of the Holocaust and the extermination camps, although the book's action takes place much later. On the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a team of ZDF German TV interview with an officer of the SS, Gunter Meissner, who was there after being wounded on the Russian front. Far from repenting of their actions, what it does is boast and justify what happened based on the historical moment and the rise of Hitler. As a counterpoint to this character, television Yehuda Weiss interview also coincided there in Auschwitz, as a victim. The story continues in a strange game in which the roles of victim and executioner at the end tend to be exchanged in an original set of mirrors.
Although the plot of the novel is not overly complex, the strength of it is real and which are well designed psychological profiles of both characters: Günter Meissner and Yehuda Weiss.
The author has had to study while some aspects of life in Auschwitz, but uses the material to perfection in the right spot to not bore, putting the information into the mouths of the characters instead of leaving it in the hands of narrator would have been easier.
already had occasion to read José Luis Muñoz in a later work, 's southern border. In the case of absolute evil The conflict lies in the foreground, as if the past will return, as if it had ended in vain. JL Muñoz and put into the mouth of Yehuda Weiss and the interviewer, Eva Steiger, denouncing the Nuremberg trials. You wonder how many of those who participated in the killing were never prosecuted. Gunter Meissner was one of them.
Another aspect to be highlighted by the book are flying over the prison experiments were carried out. I've had the opportunity to review a book in which he spoke of medical experiments in fields concetración in detail - Doctors from Hell by Vivien Spitz. José Luis Muñoz through his characters tells some of these experiments.
The absolute evil of José Luis Muñoz speaks of the Holocaust and the extermination camps, although the book's action takes place much later. On the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a team of ZDF German TV interview with an officer of the SS, Gunter Meissner, who was there after being wounded on the Russian front. Far from repenting of their actions, what it does is boast and justify what happened based on the historical moment and the rise of Hitler. As a counterpoint to this character, television Yehuda Weiss interview also coincided there in Auschwitz, as a victim. The story continues in a strange game in which the roles of victim and executioner at the end tend to be exchanged in an original set of mirrors.
Although the plot of the novel is not overly complex, the strength of it is real and which are well designed psychological profiles of both characters: Günter Meissner and Yehuda Weiss.
The author has had to study while some aspects of life in Auschwitz, but uses the material to perfection in the right spot to not bore, putting the information into the mouths of the characters instead of leaving it in the hands of narrator would have been easier.
already had occasion to read José Luis Muñoz in a later work, 's southern border. In the case of absolute evil The conflict lies in the foreground, as if the past will return, as if it had ended in vain. JL Muñoz and put into the mouth of Yehuda Weiss and the interviewer, Eva Steiger, denouncing the Nuremberg trials. You wonder how many of those who participated in the killing were never prosecuted. Gunter Meissner was one of them.
Another aspect to be highlighted by the book are flying over the prison experiments were carried out. I've had the opportunity to review a book in which he spoke of medical experiments in fields concetración in detail - Doctors from Hell by Vivien Spitz. José Luis Muñoz through his characters tells some of these experiments.
In general we think that the issue of the death camps has been widely played in literature and film. However, José Luis Muñoz has the ability to narrate the events outside the historical time, basing the narrative knot in the action-reaction of the characters and getting closer to a psychological novel.
The absolute evil was awarded the Novel Prize XI City of Badajoz.
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