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050 00 $aPT2625.I85$bF813 2004
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100 1 $aMitterer, Erika,$d1906-2001.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88238891
240 10 $aFürst der Welt.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004045001
245 14 $aThe prince of darkness /$cErika Mitterer ; translated by Catherine Hutter in collaboration with the author ; afterword by Herwig Gottwald ; biographical sketch by Martin G. Petrowsky.
260 $aRiverside, Calif. :$bAriadne Press,$c2004.
300 $a676 pages :$bportrait ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 1 $a"The Prince of Darkness, written by Erika Mitterer (1906-2001) in 1939, is a veiled criticism of the contemporary political system. It was meant to show how evil can rise and take hold of people who are not intrinsically bad but let themselves be carried away by indifference." "The novel offers a tapestry of early sixteenth-century life in pre-Reformation Germany. It was the time of decline for the nobility, of peasant revolts, of the rise of mercantile capitalism, of free-thinking scholars, artists and scientists, and of the Inquisition. Theresa, one of the two protagonists, is suspected of sorcery because of simple acts of everyday kindness and is eventually burned at the stake as a witch. Her sister, Maria Michaela, who had entered the convent and become its prioress, lets herself be manipulated by her father confessor. The reader experiences and comes to understand how the winds of mass hysteria and frustration can sway a solid citizenry to vicious gossip and acts of madness, of revenge by denunciation, of denunciation for reward, splitting lovers and families, as the one intellectual in the novel stands by helplessly." "So striking was this element of the book in its implicit association with the Hitler regime that, after its publication in Norway, a sudden absence of paper prevented it from being republished in Germany."--BOOK JACKET.
700 1 $aHutter, Catherine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97867378
830 0 $aStudies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought.$pTranslation series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90606626
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