Volume 26, Number 5 · April 5, 1979
The Damned
By Neal Ascherson
Young Adolf
by Beryl Bainbridge
Braziller, 219 pp., $7.95
The Confessions of Josef Baisz
by Dan Jacobson
Harper & Row, 213 pp., $10.00
King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust
by Leslie Epstein
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 350 pp., $10.95
These are, all three, novels about powerlessness and power. All three prowl about the margins—in time, in place, in morbid psychology—of fascist dictatorship, the mighty ideology of the gutter which promised every derelict that he too could have muscles. If the strong gave forth sweetness, these novels are more interested in the sour poison which is sweated by the weak.
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