Ship of Fools
31 hrs. 18 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Katherine Anne Porter
Author
Katherine Anne Porter
Narrator
Lyudmila Larionova
Narrator
Lyudmila Larionova
Description
August 1931. The German passenger steamer “Vera” leaves the Mexican port of Veracruz on a voyage and is scheduled to arrive in Bremerhaven in mid-September. From Mexico, torn apart by political passions, the ship sails to Germany. At first life on board proceeds as usual: the passengers get acquainted and exchange ritual remarks. But gradually, in the speech of some of them, eloquent phrases begin to slip through—phrases behind which lies a totalitarian ideology that has not yet been officially formed, still existing on the everyday level, but already trying to declare itself aloud, to be inscribed on banners, and to lead the believers into the last and decisive battle against the enemies of the nation.
Gradually, on the steamer commanded by Captain Thiele, a prototype of the great Reich is established. For now, things have not yet come to open terror, but the shipboard majority, including the ship’s ideologue, the ponderous fool Professor Gutten, has already psychologically accepted the “new order.” All that is needed is a Führer…
Gradually, on the steamer commanded by Captain Thiele, a prototype of the great Reich is established. For now, things have not yet come to open terror, but the shipboard majority, including the ship’s ideologue, the ponderous fool Professor Gutten, has already psychologically accepted the “new order.” All that is needed is a Führer…
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