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Novelists and the Personal Politics of Tyranny — Robert Harris, Alan Furst, and Philip Kerr

Sedge Thomson presents wisdom for these times from three best-selling novelists.  

 

ROBERT HARRIS —  He covered politics in the UK. Then he wrote his novel imagining the Nazis ruled Britain inFatherland, his Imperium series about Roman politics and the failures of the Senate illuminate our own times. 

 

ALAN FURST His novels set from the 1930s to 1944 explore historical themes of Fascist rise and rule and the Resistance of individuals and lovers across a misty-past Europe. 

 

PHILIP KERR —  His Berlin Noir series sets personal detection of crimes against the background of the larger crimes of the Third Reich. His detective, Bernie Gunther, used expediency and personal integrity to resist party thuggery. His young persons books and other novels explore the shifts from democracy to political and religious tyranny, written with his dark comic voice. Philip died three months ago, age 62, on March 23, 2018.

 

Sedge’s flâneur files.