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The Bullet'S Song: Romantic Violence And Utopia,New
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A Hidden Moral History Of The Twentieth Century Unfolds In William Pfaff'S Fascinating Story Of Writers, Artists, Intellectual Soldiers, And Religious Revolutionaries Implicated In The Century'S Physical And Moral Violence. They Were Motivated By Romanticism, Nationalism, Utopianism And The Search For Transcendence. To Our Twentyfirst Century, Already Plunged Once Again Into Visionary Terrorism And Utopian Quests, They Leave A Warning....The Account Begins With Italy'S Futurists, Who Glorified War As 'The World'S Only Hygiene'; Painted Speed, Action, And Noise; Invented 'Found Sound' And Chromatic Pianos; Thought Violence Sublime; And Demanded 'Reconstruction Of The Universe.'Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Playwright, And Nationalist Buccaneer, Created A Revolutionary Utopia In A Dalmatian City Stolen In 1919 From Woodrow Wilson And The Versailles Treaty Makers. In Doing So, He Invented The Political Style And Rituals Of Fascism, As Well As Third World Liberation. T.E. Lawrence, Archaeologist And Spy, Guided The Arab Revolt Against The Turks, Becoming Both 'Uncrowned King Of Arabia' And Masochist Secular Saint. Ernst Jnger, Artist And Scientist, The German Army'S Most Decorated Hero Of World War I, Made Heroism A Political Ideology And Became Intellectual Leader Of The National Cause. Hitler Was A Follower. In World War Ii Jnger Plotted Hitler'S Assassination And Survived To Become A Symbol Of Francogerman Reconciliation. Willi Mnzenberg, Lenin'S Propaganda Genius And An Original Member Of The Comintern, Invented The Political 'Front' Organization, Created The Sacco And Vanzetti Case, And Seduced A Generation Of 'Innocents' To The Communist Cause Before Becoming A Dissident Himself. He Wasstrangled By Soviet Agents In A French Forest. Andr Malraux, Fantasist 'Byron Of The 1930S,' Worldfamous Novelist, Emulator Of T.E. Lawrence, And Makebelieve Leader Of The Chinese Revolution, Discovered 'That Daydreaming Gives Rise To Action.' He Created And Led An Air Squadron For Republican Spain, Wrote Himself Into The Script Of The French Resistance As A Hero And Became One. Arthur Koestler, The Most Famous Scientific Journalist In Europe, Was A Comintern Spy In Spain; Condemned To Death There, He Abandoned The Cause And Wrote Darkness At Noon, The Most Influential Anticommunist Work Of Its Time, Before Committing Suicide In 1976.Others With Roles In The Bullet'S Song Are Benito Mussolini, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Che Guevara, Charles De Foucauld, Simone Weil, Jeanpaul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, Europe'S Terrorists Of The 1970S, And 'Popski' Vladimir Peniakoff The Honorable Man Who Found Happiness In Leading His Private Army To War.
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