6/3/2023 0 Comments The sympathiser book review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Only the Commissar can teach that lesson, and only our protagonist can learn it. In that light "Nothing" - pointlessness, the recognition that no thing has any real meaning - has become more important than the life and liberty for which they were supposed to have committed their lives. That's the kind of insight the Commandant values, a mindless literalism that's become dogma in the new country.Ģ) The Commissar recognizes that mindless truism as dogma, though, as an intellectual betrayal of what motivated them to commit to the revolution as young men. In that light, our protagonist has to find his own way to the Ho Chi Minh truism that "Nothing" is more important than life and liberty. (view spoiler) [I'd add to your answer, Jim, that the Commissar has to keep interrogating him for (like everything else in the novel) two reasons:ġ) The structure of post-war Vietnam demands that anyone tainted with Western thinking be taught to think like the "restored" country. ![]()
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