Darkness in the City of Light Curtis Tony
Darkness in the City of Light Curtis Tony Paris is an extraordinary city, never more so than during the German occupation, with all the tensions, accommodations, resistances and paradoxes which that…
Specifikacia Darkness in the City of Light Curtis Tony
Darkness in the City of Light Curtis Tony
Paris is an extraordinary city, never more so than during the German occupation, with all the tensions, accommodations, resistances and paradoxes which that entailed. Morality is more sharply in focus than ever, and more expendable.Against this background, and at the centre of the novel, moves Marcel Petiot, doctor, collaborator or resistance fighter, psychopath and serial murderer. Civilised German officers engage in Parisian culture while their colleagues torture and kill in the city; French citizens measure what needs to be sacrificed in order to survive, or to be free.
As Curtis's novel progresses and awareness of Petiot and his actions grows, so too does his presence in the book. He is the embodiment of the chaos and brutality of war, of the evil and inhumanity of dictatorship. With the liberation of Paris, Petiot is at its centre, forced into new roles and new