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"The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist."--Giovanni Papini It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of anxiety and evil set amid the horrors of World War II. As a gay man living in a totalitarian, patriarchal society, noted Czech writer Ladislav Fuks identified with the tragic fate of his Jewish countrymen during the Holocaust. The Cremator arises from that shared experience. Fuks presents a grotesque, dystopian world in which a dutiful father, following the strict logic of his time, liberates the souls of his loved ones by destroying their bodies--first the dead, then the living. As we watch this very human character--a character who never ceases to believe that he is doing good--become possessed by an inhuman ideology, the evil that initially permeates the novel's atmosphere concretizes in this familiar family man. A study of the totalitarian mindset with stunning resonance for today, The Cremator is a disturbing, powerful work of literary horror.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Horror & ghost stories

• Full title: Cremator
• Author: Ladislav Fuks
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9788024632902
• ISBN: 802463290X
• ID: 12870714
• Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
• Weight: 142 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 190 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. October 2016

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