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The Spinoza Problem
- A Novel
- Lu par : Traber Burns
- Durée : 14 h et 1 min
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When 16-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster's office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe, his idol, was a great admirer of the Jewish 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Long after graduation, Rosenberg remains haunted by this "Spinoza problem": How could the German genius Goethe have been inspired by a member of a race Rosenberg considers so inferior to his own, a race he was determined to destroy?
Spinoza himself was no stranger to punishment during his lifetime. Because of his unorthodox religious views, he was excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community in 1656, at the age of 24, and banished from the only world he had ever known. Though his life was short and he lived without means in great isolation, he nonetheless produced works that changed the course of history.
Over the years, Rosenberg rose through the ranks to become an outspoken Nazi ideologue, a faithful servant of Hitler, and the main author of racial policy for the Third Reich. Still, his Spinoza obsession lingered. By imagining the unexpected intersection of Spinoza's life with Rosenberg's, internationally best-selling novelist Irvin D. Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. Using his skills as a psychiatrist, he explores the inner lives of Spinoza, the saintly secular philosopher, and of Rosenberg, the godless mass murderer.
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Histoire
- Pierre Gauthier
- 18/04/2020
Aggravating!
Chapters in this longish novel alternate between the life of 17th century philosopher Bento Spinoza, of Jewish origin and training, and that of early 20th century Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg. As the author himself acknowledges in the epilogue, there is little to link them except that Spinoza’s brilliance and originality could hardly be congruent with the Nazi world vision.
There are no parallels between their lives, Spinoza being excommunicated from his synagogue and going on to live a studious life and Rosenberg following the ebb and flow of Nazi power till his execution after being tried in Nuremberg. Thus, the novel is simply the author’s clumsy means of expressing his own views on various topics. One dimensional characters and artificial dialogues are used to stage discussions (that are not necessarily uninteresting) on religion and philosophy. This, however, by no means leads to a decent novel. Action is excruciating slow, what is justified in Spinoza’s case since little is known of life but not for Rosenberg’s whose vicissitudes in the Nazi régime could certainly have been more developed.
Overall, there appears no justification to recommend this work to anyone.
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