Mephisto in the Third Reich Literary Representations of Evil in Nazi Germany.epub

Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein, "Mephisto in the Third Reich: Literary Representations of Evil in Nazi Germany"
English | ISBN: 3110379384 | 2015 | 171 pages | EPUB | 1 MB

The association of Nazism with the symbol of ultimate evil - the devil - can be found in the works of Klaus and Thomas Mann, Else Lasker-Schuler, and Rolf Hochhuth. He appears either as Satan of the Judeo-Christian tradition, or as Goethe's Mephisto. Barasch-Rubinstein looks into this phenomenon and analyzes the premise that the image of the devil had a substantial impact on Germans' acceptance of Nazi ideas.


Biography
Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein is a scholar, an author of fiction, and a blogger. She published academic books in the Humanities, mainly on understanding Nazism in a cultural context. Her first collection of stories is 'Five Selves'. It unfolds in Israel, where she lives, but touches upon very general themes. She also runs a successful blog, On Ourselves and Others (onourselvesandothers.com). The blog focuses on issues related to Israel, and on general questions of visual art and literature.