Swastika Night -

Katharine Burdekin

The Feminist Press at CUNY

1993

208 páginas

6h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780935312560

Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, this novel projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. They are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished all history, education, creativity, books, and art. Not even the memory of culture remains. The plot centers on a "misfit" who asks, as readers must, "How could this have happenned?" Ann J. Lane calls the novel a "brilliant, chilling dystopia." "This is a powerful, haunting vision of the inner and outer worlds of male violence."-Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884-1933.

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4 (Muito bom)

A premissa do livro foi o que fez com que eu quisesse ler. Eu esperava ouvir as vozes femininas e os relatos delas do cotidiano nesse mundo misógino. Não gostei muito que mais da metade do livro são apenas conversas (por mais que importantes). Esperava mais movimentação, mas foi uma leitura válida.