Geordie Williamson
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first heard Mar 2018
last heard 21 Aug
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So that's the splinter that is inserted at the very beginning of the narrative.
And as we learn and as we know, the the historical Pabst got trapped in France uh at the outbreak of war, uh, and ended up going and working for the Germans.
They gave him a lot of money and allowed him to do what he wanted, at least at the beginning.
She does, but I think what's most interesting about Lenny's appearance is that Pabst is horrified at the idea that she might be using large scale kind of actors who she's removed from concentration camps to kind of, you know, swell the ranks of her vast crowds and so on and so forth.
But this is a novel about Pab's own moral degradation.
And he is an artist.
He stakes everything on art because his gamble, and I think he actually makes the point um quite late in the novel, that uh art is always out of place, always unnecessary when it's made.
And later when you look back, it's the only thing that mattered.
So
He's making a gamble, based I think, in some sense on on Lenny's own kind of uh effort, that if he makes the art in the future, people will look back and not not remember the other side of it.
But when we get Pabst himself using at the very end of the novel and at the end of his career and at the end of his sanity, I would say, a concentration camp uh
um people, figures in Prague, outside of Prague, in order to swell the numbers of a scene that absolutely must be pulled off if he's going to make this movie.
You can see that his own degradation has been complete.
And the fact that it's all framed within a novel is kind of blows my mind in some way.
Are we supposed to say that the art is the thing that wins in the end?
Or is this moral degradation that he suffered the thing that is
basically that art has entombed forever and more now.
Look, I I I'm interested in the fact that this man who'd written sort of five novels before he was thirty and had written, I don't know what, seven before he wrote this one.
Um, he waited until he was in his fifties to actually deal with that era in German history.
A guy whose father was in a work camp.
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