How do you stay safe and remain true to yourself when you live in a totalitarian regime? Bend Sinister’s Adam Krug tries to figure it out.
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Or the books I mentioned:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago:
Jocobo Timmerman’s Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number:
Etty Hillesum’s Letters from Westerbork:
For one scholar’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s ambivalence about democracy (and women), see “Nietzsche as Political Thinker,” an interview with Maudemarie Clark, Four by Three Magazine:
Quotations from Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1947/1981), 217, xiii, 66 and Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955/1992), 10.
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Postcard of Montreux, Switzerland. Public domain image courtesy Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons: :
Friedrich Nietzsche photograph by Gustav Schultze. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons: :
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn photograph by Bert Verhoeff, courtesy Dutch National Archives. Public domain image (CC0 1.0) via Wikimedia Commons: :
Jacobo Timmerman photograph courtesy Revista Gente y la actualidad, 1977 via Wikimedia Commons: :
Etty Hillesum photograph courtesy Joods Historisch Museum. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons: :Portretfoto_van_Etty_Hillesum_
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