1 Dec 2023 12:39 pm
I probably read the same edition as you. It was turgid and redundant. But I was struck by the ideas Hitler put forth. This was written when he was briefly in prison following the aborted coup "The Beer Hall Putsch", around 1923. He said plainly what he was going to do if he gained power. How could people not see what was coming?Cannonpointer » 30 Nov 2023, 9:34 pm » wrote: ↑
Props on caring enough about your world to read seminal works. If you found a better translation of Mein Kampf than I was able to find, good on ya. I never could get a translation that was readable. I mean, I READ it. But my experience of it sucked. I genuinely suspected that the translator deliberately did a **** job (he was jewish). If not, Hitler was melville all over again.
And don't diss Melville. His novel "The Confidence Man" is one of my favorite works of fiction.