13 April 2021
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Behind enemy lines
Robert Wright and Alexander Wolff, author of the new book Endpapers, compare the World War II experiences of their fathers, who fought on opposite sides at the Battle of the Bulge.
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In this video:
- Alex’s new book, Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
- Kurt Wolff’s fugitive life as a literary subversive
- Alex’s father’s experience fighting for Germany in WWII
- The complementary war recollections of Alex’s and Bob’s fathers
- Helen and Kurt Wolff’s founding of, and exit from, Pantheon Books
- The expansive life and fitting death of Kurt Wolff
- A father’s flight from the past, a son’s revisitation
- Did the German bourgeoisie’s devotion to aesthetic experience blind them to their moral responsibilities?
- Endpapers as objet d’art
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