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Physiognomy of the murderer: "The benevolent "by Jonathan Littell Brief

leave this article I thought when I last had the impression of having read The benevolent, but no way, after a few days since I closed the book, I am overwhelmed by the monumental novel by Jonathan Littell. And this book, rather than make your hair stand on end (which puts you, of course) ends up making the reader complicit in the barbaric and submit to the heavy feeling of collective guilt. Say

moral Littell strategy is to shorten the distance between the criminal the person who is not up to her in a narrow trench that can be crossed easily in both directions. For there have come just negative criticism, by those who believe that character is not credible Aue.

To me, however, it does seem credible. The hypothesis that says Littell is: the executioner can be a cult-like, sensitive even, and not necessarily be a butcher low light. I am reminded, for example, the torturer Death and the Maiden , violating women while listening to Schubert.

And Max Aue, the protagonist of the novel that will thrive in the SS, has its charm if one contemplates from the logic of the moment. He is educated, intelligent, efficient, educated, get excited about Flaubert and Stendhal, with Beethoven and Haydn and enjoy intelligent discussions and good food and drink. When it works, is responsible for the extermination of the Jews with the same professional zeal with which issues of logistics ships and uniforms.

Littell's vision is in the same direction as Irène Némirowsky in French Suite. Manichaeism is worthless. Tear-fiction (Spielberg, for example) tells us nothing about what happened. Points in Magris Danube the most moving book about the death camps is Commander in Austchwitz , written by Rudolf Höss just before he was hanged.

One of the most telling paradox that has benevolent The explanation is that the SS does not look kindly on those who executed Jews with contempt and sadistic, even enjoying it. Not so. The idea, says Aue, is that you do because you need to, but not by choice. In fact, he has no objection to be polite and even friendly with Jews or Russian soldiers about to be executed with having treatment. It is inflexible in carrying out their duty, but not a hate machine.

This book is a journey into the heart of the SS and centers of power in the Third Reich. But it is not moralizing biempensantes to simplify the human condition.

Because deep down, Aue us each and every one of us.

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MARCH VIDEO-FORUM: INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY

Friday 6:
-The Hubble Heritage (Odyssey): 45 min. -Last Frontier
Hubble (NatGeo): 48 min.

Friday 13
"The Eye of Hubble (BBC): 29 min.
-astronomical topics: 1 h: 1. The Milky Way. 2. Telescopes. 3. Measure of the Universe.
4. Radiation. 5. Black Holes. 6. Towards Infinity.

Friday 20

-SUN-VENUS Project



Friday 27-Jupiter-Asteroid


Time: 7:30 pm

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Swiss therapy

There are countries that will get rid of the anxiety of a slap: just land and get the first whiff of the realm of humanity so that the traveler will remove the silly western in others, however, therapy is more gradual: the melancholy numbs a little, breathe some air puffs glacier, watching the sky lattice by the tangle of cables and tram becomes a more relaxed home. Obviously India belongs to the first group and Switzerland to the second.

Whenever one begins a journey, some memory, often a stereotype, emerges from the subconscious. Route to Switzerland, I can think of two. First, the romance of Hans Castorp, the young more wounded in the soul in the body that went to a Swiss clinic in one of the best novels of all time: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. Second, the lapidary phrase of cynical Harry Lime who plays Orson Welles in The Third Man , which said that the bloody Italy of the Borgias produced Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Renaissance, while five hundred years of democracy, peace and love Switzerland produced the cuckoo clock.

But reality is always second, and soon we were embedded in the cold of Zurich and forget Castorp, Welles and other mythology. In fact, we soon learned that the Swiss are forced to serve three weeks a year of compulsory military service.

civilization reaches here where nature is allowed: a 2000 meters in the port of Kleine Scheidegg, next to the train stop zipper, as quietly as seen in the neat streets of Zurich, but a little becoming apparent beyond the boundaries of the civilized world on the basis of mile high along the north face of Eiger or the seracs suspended.

is a privilege to account for the typical ranch Germany (sausage, sauerkraut and beer) in front of the Eiger-Nordwand, the north face of the Swiss mountain called "Ogre." Few places so much badness alpine face this wall. Like a huge canvas, Heickmar, Harrer, Terray, Lachenal, Bonnington, Messner, Steck Habeler or have drawn much of their lives on this impressive vertical wall. Some, like the Maños Rabada and Navarro, stayed there for ever.

next day, the Alps do not let us even come close. A slow, steady snow falling relentlessly on the quiet streets of Bern. Toca refuge in bars, where coffee day and night stimulates dormant beer. There seems to be a problem for this mixture of Swiss and English that we are all good eaters and drinkers.

But the days pass quickly and time is running out. Unlike Rabada and Navarro, unlike Hans Castorp, shortly after we got on a plane that returned home.