![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a vital book." -Eric Hester, Catholic Times, April 2007 "On the basis of his painstaking ethical-linguistic examinations, Klemperer is one of the most valuable witnesses to the methods of totalitarian mental corruption. it is full of anecdotes and details that illustrate the effect of the changes in language. Aaij, CHOICE "This book is a breathtaking balancing act, by turns horrifying and heroic, saddening and sardonic of major historical importance and grippingly well-written" -Philip Riley, Book Review for The International Journal of Applied Linguistics "This important, stimulating and necessary book should be required reading for all who want to understand what politicians are doing to us today. They implicitly gesture towards his act of witness, and towards others like it." - Times Higher Educational "This book is an honest narrative of hope and oppression, touching in places and well written, in an accessible translation." -M. But studies of language - whether social, political or aesthetic - owe him a debt. "It is obscene, in a sense, to relate Klemperer's situation to any subsequent intellectual enquiry conducted unmolested by tyranny. ![]()
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