Jean-Noël Orengo

Miten kirjoittaa miehestä, jonka omat muistelmat ovat osoittautuneet fiktioksi? Albert Speer kuorrutti elämänsä valheilla ja sai muutkin uskomaan niihin. Tosipohjainen ja paljastava romaani syventyy hänen ystävyyteensä Hitlerin kanssa ja todelliseen vastuuseensa natsien sotarikoksista. Albert Speer, Kolmannen valtakunnan arkkitehti ja ministeri, loi itsestään kuvan katuvaisena miehenä, joka oli ollut tietämätön holokaustin kauhuista. Todellisuudessa hän onnistui pelastamaan itsensä kuolemantuomiolta taitavalla tarinankerronnalla Nürnbergin oikeudenkäynnissä. Upeasti kirjoitettu, tiukasti faktoihin pohjautuva romaani vie lukijan matkalle Speerin elämään, valheelliseen julkisuuskuvaan ja totuuteen, joka jäi sen varjoon. Se on pysäyttävä kertomus vallasta, vastuusta ja moraalisista valinnoista historian synkimpinä hetkinä. Jean-Noël Orengo on ranskalainen kirjailija ja kriitikko. Hänet tunnetaan syvällisestä otteestaan ja kyvystään yhdistää faktoihin pohjautuva tarkkuus kaunokirjalliseen kerrontaan.

An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer ‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’ This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker. In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, publishes his memoirs. Rewriting his own past, claiming to have known nothing about the Final Solution, he declares himself ‘collectively responsible, but not individually guilty’. It is one of the greatest lies in history. Jean-Noël Orengo’s electrifying novel is the story of a man who saved his skin through the countless fictions he created about himself. A man with a talent for survival, who dazzled those around him with his monuments to power and then, escaping death, reinvented himself as a bestselling author. A man once described as the Führer's unrequited love. It is a story of power and ambition, self-interest and self-deceit – and what happens in a war over the truth.

An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer ‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’ This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker. In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, publishes his memoirs. Rewriting his own past, claiming to have known nothing about the Final Solution, he declares himself ‘collectively responsible, but not individually guilty’. It is one of the greatest lies in history. Jean-Noël Orengo’s electrifying novel is the story of a man who saved his skin through the countless fictions he created about himself. A man with a talent for survival, who dazzled those around him with his monuments to power and then, escaping death, reinvented himself as a bestselling author. A man once described as the Führer's unrequited love. It is a story of power and ambition, self-interest and self-deceit – and what happens in a war over the truth.