Ginster - Siegfried Kracauer

When World War I Breaks Out, A Young Architecture Student In Munich Does Everything In His Power To Avoid Being Enlisted Into The German Military In This Perceptive, Wickedly Humorous Novel By A Prominent Twentieth-century Writer, Journalist, And Film Critic. Ginster Is A War Novel About Not Going To War; About How War, Far From The Front, Comes To Warp Every Aspect Of Outer And Inner Life And To Infect The Workings Of Language Itself. The Subject Is World War I, But This Novel By The Brilliant Twentieth-century Sociologist, Journalist, And Film Critic Siegfried Kracauer, First Published In 1928, Has As Much To Say About What It Means To Live Under The Sulking Great Powers And Blood-imbrued Satrapies Of Today As It Does About The Inflamed Self-righteousness Of Late Imperial Germany.