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The Architects

por Stefan Heym

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Written between 1963 and 1966, when its publication would have proved to be political dynamite--and its author's undoing--The Architects of political intrigue and personal betrayal takes readers into the German Democratic Republic in the late 1950s, shortly after Khruschev's "secret speech" denouncing Stalin and his methods brought about a "thaw" in the Soviet bloc and, with it, the release of many victims of Stalinist brutality. Among these is Daniel, a Communist exile from Hitler who has been accused of treachery while in Moscow and who now returns to Germany after years of imprisonment. A brilliant architect, he is taken on by his former colleague, Arnold Sundstrom, who was in exile in Moscow as well but somehow fared better. He is now in fact the chief architect for the World Peace Road being built by the GDR. In Daniel, Arnold's young wife Julia finds the key that will unlock the dark secret of her husband's success and of her own parents' deaths in Moscow-and will undermine the very foundation on which she has built her life. A novel of exquisite suspense, romance, and drama, The Architects is also a window on a harrowing period of history that its author experienced firsthand-and that readers would do well to remember today.… (más)
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I couldn't get into it, the characters were just flat. ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jun 2, 2024 |
This author led an interesting life. A German communist who fled Hitler, he settled in the United States and fought in the US army in the war, while remaining a communist. After the creation of the German Democratic Republic in 1949 he defected there, where he was for a while feted as a prominent anti-fascist writer, before becoming disillusioned with the Stalinist state. He fell out of favour and his works were effectively banned. After the collapse of East Germany and reunification, he briefly sat in the German parliament.

This novel was written in the early 60s and concerns the aftermath of Khrushchev's secret speech denouncing Stalin, with Julia Goltz finding out that her parents were among those condemned and executed during the purges, and shatteringly, that her husband, their old friend, was the one who had denounced her. It contains some interesting passages about the nature of betrayal and how compromise with dictatorship corrupts human conscience and decency. But I didn't find the characters very interesting and there were too many digressions into architecture that I found a bit dull. So this didn't fulfil its promise for me. 3/5 ( )
  john257hopper | Apr 13, 2013 |
Die Welt der DDR lebt mit all ihrer Engstirnigkeit und ihrer Staatskontrolle auf und versprüht Ekel und Angst. ( )
  Kaysbooks | Aug 18, 2007 |
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Heyms Roman ist deshalb so eindrucksvoll, weil er seine Systemkritik aus den Menschen heraus begründet. Er zeigt am Beispiel des Architekten Sundstrom, wie sich die Menschen in ihren ideologischen Gefängnissen oft wider besseren Wissens einrichten. Erschreckend klar wird in "Die Architekten", wie Karrieregier oder auch nur der simple Wunsch nach einem halbwegs unbehelligten Leben Ethik und soziale Bindungen zur Nebensache degradieren können. Gleichzeitig wird deutlich, wie schwer es Menschen fallen muss, mit der selbst oder auch historisch gewonnenen Erkenntnis zu leben: "Dies darf nicht sein, erkläre ich... Ich glaube zutiefst, dass Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit triumphieren werden. Ich glaube. Ich glaube". Menschen, deren gesamte Sozialisation, deren Weltbild sich jahrelang auf ein System wie den Sozialismus berief, können die Ungeheuerlichkeiten dieses Systems oft nicht fassen und halten sie für einen schlechten Scherz oder einen bösen Traum. Der Bezug auf die Menschen im System ist die eigentliche Leistung des Romans. Ihre Darstellung erklärt, wie ein schon lange marodes Regime wie das der DDR sich so lange hat halten können: An der Amoralität des Regimes drohten viele zu zerbrechen; der Wunsch nach Normalität machte wohl viele zu stillen, oft viel zu stillen Teilhabern: "Das kann nicht dauern bis in alle Ewigkeit, sagst du dir. Dies ist immer noch ein sozialistisches Land ".
 

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Written between 1963 and 1966, when its publication would have proved to be political dynamite--and its author's undoing--The Architects of political intrigue and personal betrayal takes readers into the German Democratic Republic in the late 1950s, shortly after Khruschev's "secret speech" denouncing Stalin and his methods brought about a "thaw" in the Soviet bloc and, with it, the release of many victims of Stalinist brutality. Among these is Daniel, a Communist exile from Hitler who has been accused of treachery while in Moscow and who now returns to Germany after years of imprisonment. A brilliant architect, he is taken on by his former colleague, Arnold Sundstrom, who was in exile in Moscow as well but somehow fared better. He is now in fact the chief architect for the World Peace Road being built by the GDR. In Daniel, Arnold's young wife Julia finds the key that will unlock the dark secret of her husband's success and of her own parents' deaths in Moscow-and will undermine the very foundation on which she has built her life. A novel of exquisite suspense, romance, and drama, The Architects is also a window on a harrowing period of history that its author experienced firsthand-and that readers would do well to remember today.

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