[lit-ideas] Re: Aren't you glad you no longer have a Hitler problem?
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:32:07 -0700
*Was the Mufti the only person who supported Hitler at
> the time ? Ezra Pound did, too. What could this tell
> us about the American writers ?
>
ck: An aside, of course. I'm remembering my father. He had loved PG
Wodehouse, and then he learned about the author's politics, by accident.
That was it--no more Wodehouse for him. He couldn't read PG with good humor
anymore. Ruined. I feel somewhat that way towards quite a number of
anti-Semitic American authors, Pound among them. I rationalize their
politics--in the air, a different time, etc.--but their political views keep
me at something of a distance from their work, informs my reading, dampens
my pleasure. For years (and even now) I avoided reading or even knowing the
biographies of writers. The anti-biographical approach has much to recommend
it, denial among them.
Carol
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From: "Omar Kusturica" <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 10:53 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Aren't you glad you no longer have a Hitler
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>
>
> --- Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Who was with the Nazis during World War II?
>>
>> Why the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, that
>> proto-Islamist,
>> Hitler's buddy, the Mufti who had himself
>> photographed with
>> Hitler and ultimately sought refuge in Berlin.
>
>>
>> So of all the people on the List, the one who would
>> be most
>> likely to have cheered on Hitler would be ... Omar.
>
>
> *I doubt it. As I said before, while I am not opposed
> *in principle* to war, I have little sympathy for
> nationalism and I strongly dislike the military. I
> doubt that I would have found Hitler's brand of
> militaristic nationalism at all appealling.
>
> O.K.
>
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