Zone of Interest

[rich]

'I looked at it out there. The figures that held my attention, as always (I
too had an office at Buna, and spent many hours in front of its window),
the figures that held my attention were not the men in stripes, as they
queued or scurried in lines or entangled one another in a kind of
centipedal scrum, moving at an unnatural speed, like extras in a silent
film, moving faster than their strength or build  could bear, as if in
obedience to a frantic crank swivelled by a furious hand; the figures that
held my attention were not the Kapos who screamed at the prisoners, nor the
SS noncoms who screamed at the Kapos, nor the overalled company foremen who
screamed at the SS noncoms. No. What held my eye were the figures in city
business suits, designers, engineers, administrators from IG Farben plants
in Frankfurt, Leverkusen, Ludwigshafen, with leather-bound notebooks and
retractable yellow measuring tapes, daintily picking their way past the
bodies of the wounded, the unconscious, and the dead'

there's a certain dreadful yet serious focus to Zone of Interest lacking in
much of Amis' later efforts. good to see him back in form

rich
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