by Robert Merle · FOLIO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070367894
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«La mort est mon métier» is the historical novel by Robert Merle, published by Folio in paperback (416 pages, in French).
The novel is presented as the fictional memoirs of Rudolf Lang, a stand-in for the real Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höß, and follows his life from childhood to his role in organizing the Nazi extermination. Merle shows a cold, bureaucratic mentality, devoid of remorse, to explore the banality of evil and dehumanization.
This edition belongs to the Folio collection (no. 789) and was published in 1976; the work originally appeared in 1952.
For readers of historical fiction about World War II and those interested in the psychology of perpetrators.
Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist. Born in Rosewood, Kentucky, his songs' lyrics were often about the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners. Among his many well-known songs and recordings are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues", "I Am a Pilgrim", and "Dark as a Dungeon". He is best known today, though, for his unique guitar style, still called Travis picking by guitarists, as well as his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Travis picking is a syncopated style of guitar fingerpicking rooted in ragtime music in which alternating chords and bass notes are plucked by the thumb, while melodies are plucked by the index finger. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977.
