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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Dayuhan who wrote (45888)	7/17/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) of 108807

At 50 I have now read far more shocking things- though not if I could help it. But at 18, I hadn't. And I'm not sure there was value in doing so. If indeed, he made up the content, then it was nothing more than sensationalism, and apparently not that well-written. One reviewer said that he had written one review, then found out the book was autobiographical, so he tore up his first review and wrote a much better one. Why would that be? If indeed,as Cobe mentioned, Kisinski was part of the Alienation group- Brecht, etc.-- that lack of sympathy you felt was part of their goal. They wanted the audience to think, not feel. Brecht was never completely able to attain this; I remmeber feeling pity for Mother Courage. But if this book was fiction, then does it really have value as Edwarda (I think it was she)said as a way of making us look at man's inhumanity to man? Or is it just a twisted mind's fevered imaginings of the possibilities? Which I don't care to consider. I am more moved by Anne Frank's diary or Corrie ten Boom's description of the camps. Books that left me not just horrified, but also still hopeful.

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