The Cremator

By: Ladislav Fuks, Eva M. Kandler (Translator), Rajendra A. Chitnis (Afterword by)

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Paperback | 15 January 2017 | Edition Number 2

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180 Pages

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1.91 x 1.33 x 0.11

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âThe devilâs neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesnât exist.ââ"Giovanni Papini

It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of anxiety and evil set amid the horrors of World War II. As a gay man living in a totalitarian, patriarchal society, noted Czech writer Ladislav Fuks identified with the tragic fate of his Jewish countrymen during the Holocaust. The Cremator arises from that shared experience. Fuks presents a grotesque, dystopian world in which a dutiful father, following the strict logic of his time, liberates the souls of his loved ones by destroying their bodiesâ"first the dead, then the living. As we watch this very human characterâ"a character who never ceases to believe that he is doing goodâ"become possessed by an inhuman ideology, the evil that initially permeates the novelâs atmosphere concretizes in this familiar family man. A study of the totalitarian mindset with stunning resonance for today, The Cremator is a disturbing, powerful work of literary horror.

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"Brief, haunting, and finely etched."-- "New York Times, on Fuks's "Mr. Theodore Mundstock""

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