| |
|
Read it, disliked it - Amis explains Tod's (a word for death in German) characterization by referring to one of his main sources - robert jay lifton's The Nazi Doctors (which I haven't read, but I did read his book on Aum Shinryko, The Cult at the End of the World ). He said that because of the dissociative nature of medical training, doctors were more susceptible in general to a character splitting that allowed them to perform atrocities while maintaining another personality that had what we'd recognize as a normal ego-superego.
Why did I dislike the book? The Amis-isms mostly, shit=money, a cold war mentality of imminent annihilation that I couldn't relate to at the time I read it (see London Fields) (but now perhaps I would recognize it more.). |
|
|
