В съучастничество с черните: Бенито Серено съгласно Карл Шмит, Карл Шмит съгласно Бенито Серено
In collaboration with blacks: Benito Sereno according to Carl Schmidt, Carl Schmidt according to Benito Sereno

Summary/Abstract: This text, which continues the search for Baudelaire / Bolaño‘s „oases of horror“ in which modernity and terror meet, examines the opaque identification of Carl Schmidt with Benito Sereno, the protagonist of Herman Melville‘s novel of the same name, as a key figure in the answers and the defense of the lawyer and jurist Schmidt in the face of interrogations and accusations of collaboration with National Socialism in its most terrorist and vile dimensions. The identification with Don Benito contains the full set of authentic wickedness, unworthiness and opacity that characterizes the Schmidt case, named after a literary hero found in a great New World writer on the threshold of aesthetic modernity. Years before it became public, Benito Sereno‘s defense was formed in Schmidt‘s private correspondence with his brother in arms and baptism, Ernst Junger, but this meaningful epistolary genesis of identification was the subject of subsequent conversation.

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