The Damp and the Dry
A Brief Incursion into Fascist Territory
$37.47
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
10 December 2026
Summary
How do fascists think? An acclaimed novelist looks at the life and writing of a prominent Nazi collaborator to investigate the links between psychology, language, and action on the far right.
Leon Degrelle was Belgium’s highest-ranking Nazi collaborator and a fanatical Waffen-SS officer who fought on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Admired by Hitler and Mussolini and later sheltered by Franco in Spain, Degrelle embodied the figure of the fascist true believer long after…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781682194898 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1682194892 |
| Author: | Jonathan Littell, Klaus Theweleit |
| Publisher: | OR Books |
| Imprint: | OR Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 10 December 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 139mm |
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About The Author
Jonathan Littell
Jonathan Littell was born in 1967 in New York City and grew up in France. He worked for many years in humanitarian emergency operations in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, D. R. Congo, and other countries. His literary debut, The Kindly Ones (2009), won the Prix Goncourt when it was first published in France as Les Bienveillantes in 2006, and has since been translated into nearly forty languages. His other works available in English include The Fata Morgana Books (2013), Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon (2013), and Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising (2015). His first feature documentary film, Wrong Elements, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016.
Klaus Theweleit is a German sociologist. He is best known for his two-volume study of the psychology of Nazism, Male Fantasies (1987–89), first published in Germany as Männerphantasien in 1977–78.
Max Lawton is a translator of Russian, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Turkish. He is the translator of eight novels by Vladimir Sorokin, including Telluria (2022) and Their Four Hearts (2022).
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