Germany

Germany - A Nation in a Dilemma - Almost a Declaration of LoveGermans seem to love their defeats like other nations love their victories. Why? This nation which licks its history like a wound and takes pleasure in doing so is the subject of a book that dissects the dilemma of an entire culture: Germany - A Nation in a Dilemma - Almost a Declaration of Love.Germany - a country that has turned failure into an art form. The author of this provocative work Hermann Selchow dissects the German soul with the precision of a pathologist and the tenderness of a lover. The result: a literary X-ray of a nation sometimes exaggerated but always close to the truth.The famous German thoroughness reveals itself as systematic self-dismantling the drive for perfection as paralysis through analysis. Coming to terms with the past becomes a denial of the present. A people that wears its neuroses like medals and forgets how to live.But this book is no cheap voyeurism of German defects. It is a diagnosis with heart a criticism without contempt. The author himself a member of this people not only exposes the mechanisms of German self-sabotage but also demonstrates its productive power. For those who destroy themselves so virtuosically also master the art of renewal.German readers will feel caught out - and perhaps for the first time be able to smile at their own abysses. Foreigners will gain insight into the psychic landscape of a people who guard their traumas like relics. Sociologists and psychologists may find material for years of analysis.The book is written in the style of a loving postmortem: perceptive without coldness ironic without cynicism. A rare balance between science and humanity.The question for the future remains: Can the Germans overcome their self-destruction? Or is it perhaps their most precious asset? The author offers no easy answers but the right questions.Germany - A Nation in a Dilemma is therapy as literature social criticism as an