The Damp and the Dry, 9781682194898
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Unmasking the fascist mind through its language and obsessions.
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The Damp and the Dry

A Brief Incursion into Fascist Territory

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    144 pages

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    10 December 2026

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Summary

A penetrating investigation into fascist psychology and language, written by the author of The Kindly Ones.

The Damp and the Dry is a critical biography and theoretical case study by Jonathan Littell of Leon Degrelle, 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 lo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781682194898
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
Weight:0g
Dimensions:203mm x 139mm
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, won the Prix Goncourt when it was first published in France as Les Bienveillantes, and has since been translated into nearly 40 languages. His other works available in English include The Fata Morgana Books, Triptych: Three Studies after Francis Bacon, and Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising. 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, first published in Germany as Mnnerphantasien.

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 and Their Four Hearts.

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