Talk:The Aesthetics of Resistance

Historical novel?
Is this really a historical novel? It was written less than fifty years after the events it describes, and within the lifetime of the author. -- Danny Yee (talk) 19:28, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * It's historical in about the same sense as Solzhenitsyn's The Red Wheel - many of the characters are closely based on real people, even on persons you can find in historical studies or in newspapers from the time, and many of these appearing under their real names; the two authors made a conscientious effort to stick to the historically correct, down to details, much of the time, and did their own research, while both novels also aim to discuss the process of change and the moral and political choices faced by many of their characters. The second and third part of Weiss' novel, for instance, devotes much attention to what we know as the Red Orchestra resistance network and finally its destruction in 1942, ending with a haunting description of the executions of the core of the Schulze-Boysen group just before Christmas 1942. 83.254.154.164 (talk) 19:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

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