Details Containing Books Swastika Night
| Title | : | Swastika Night |
| Author | : | Katharine Burdekin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | 1985 by The Feminist Press at CUNY (first published 1937) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Alternate History. Classics |
Katharine Burdekin
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.62 | 1712 Users | 213 Reviews
Interpretation During Books Swastika Night
Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished all history, education, creativity, books, and art. The plot centers on a “misfit” who asks, “How could this have happened?”Mention Books As Swastika Night
| Original Title: | Swastika Night |
| ISBN: | 0935312560 (ISBN13: 9780935312560) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Munich (München),2609(Germany) |
Rating Containing Books Swastika Night
Ratings: 3.62 From 1712 Users | 213 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Swastika Night
This purchase reminded me of the importance and power of actual bookshops as part of our book buying experience. I would never have read this book if I had not fallen on it by accident while browsing the science fiction shelves of an actual shop. My first reaction was: what the heck is this book that I have never heard of, with such a title, and such a cover, doing be reprinted in the SF Masterworks series? Then I read the blurb on the back. A future 700 years hence where the Nazis rule half theHitler is worshipped as a god and not a single book of history remains to contradict his story...or does it?This was written in 1937, and is as remarkable a bit of prognostication as I have ever read. It suffers from excessive explaining through dialogue, clunky characters, weird ideas about women being fundamentally different than men (even once you get past the Handmaid's Tale-type elements), and general preachiness. But yowza what it got right, and ouch, how much of it feels relevant today.
Gotta love that cover!!Fascinating to think now that this was written pre-World War II. Though it is world-buildily shallow, didactic, and loses pace significantly in the middle. The introduction in this book + available wikipedia summary is enough for anyone to get the gist.I guess this book is an interesting yet horrific artefact of the past itself!
Goodness. Nazi victory is one of science fiction's mainstays, but this 1937 iteration is (one of?) the first. Still a possible future, rather than a nightmare alternate present - but Burdekin calls details like extermination of the Jews, which at that point wasn't even official policy yet. In some ways this is less a novel than a fable; in others it reminds me of a Socratic dialogue, except that no participant represents Truth fully - they are all plausible products of an unutterably fucked
Swastika Night envisions a world thousands of years in the future in which the Nazis have joint world dominance with the Japanese and the past before Hitler has been obliterated from collective memory. It is a static world in which Hitler is worshiped as a blond, blue-eyed Viking-god that was not born of woman but exploded, where Knights rule small feudal societies, where the cult of manliness dominates to such an extent that boys are taken as lovers and women are hairless cattle kept in cages,
Swastika Night A book reviewI originally picked this book up because a friend of mine said that it was always what she thought of when I described my relationship with my parents. And after reading it I can see *exactly* where she was coming from. However, putting my personal psychoanalysis aside, what I can say is that I am deeply and profoundly disappointed that the main body of the book isn't... well... better. Because the author had a truly amazing idea - to present institutional patriarchy
Swastika Night envisions a world thousands of years in the future in which the Nazis have joint world dominance with the Japanese and the past before Hitler has been obliterated from collective memory. It is a static world in which Hitler is worshiped as a blond, blue-eyed Viking-god that was not born of woman but exploded, where Knights rule small feudal societies, where the cult of manliness dominates to such an extent that boys are taken as lovers and women are hairless cattle kept in cages,
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