Description
| Product ID: | 9781913861872 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Recovered Books |
| Title: | The Sanity Inspectors |
| Authors: | Author: Friedrich Deich |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating "Who can tell exactly where the difference lies between those of us who imagine ourselves sane and those we call insane?" A novel about a psychiatrist struggling to uphold his Hippocratic oath as the Nazi regime increasingly drives his profession to corrupt and inhuman practices. What is truth in a world filled with lies? What is sanity when everyone in charge seems mad? How can good people survive in a system where everyone is compromised and corrupted? These are the questions Friedrich Deich examines in The Sanity Inspectors, his novel about a German psychiatrist struggling to stay faithful to his Hippocratic oath (''First, do no harm'') when the Nazi regime has begun its campaign to rid its population of the ''undesirables'': Jews, the insane, the feeble and mentally handicapped. Doctor Vossmenge, Deich''s protagonist, is eventually forced to join the Luftwaffe as a medical officer. There, he attempts to subvert the system from within by releasing reluctant airmen from service through bogus diagnoses. His scheme, however, ultimately leads to his arrest and a death sentence. Vossmenge''s crisis of conscience is illuminated by a running correspondence with a Lutheran pastor who tries to alert him to the moral consequences of his choices. The Sanity Inspectors continues the mission of Recovered Books series to rescue exceptional books long unavailable to today''s readers. |
| Imprint Name: | Boiler House Press |
| Publisher Name: | UEA Publishing Project |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-31 |