{"id":1083,"date":"2008-03-07T12:10:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T10:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/03\/07\/vietnam-revisited_1083"},"modified":"2008-03-07T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T10:10:33","slug":"vietnam-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/03\/07\/vietnam-revisited_1083","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ein Kollegen von der International Herlad Tribune<\/a> kommt mit \u00e4hnlichen Gef\u00fchlen aus Vietnam zur\u00fcck wie ich sie hier vor kurzem beschrieben<\/a> habe:<\/p>\n

\t„Through history’s rearview mirror, this domino theory can look risible these days, and nowhere more than in today’s Vietnam, where the Communists „won,“ and where Intel signs and the stock market players and the CNN that I faced everywhere here, ….<\/p>\n

\tThere was more to it than the facile accoutrements of the capitalist West that are on plain display, though. Given our readiness to believe in good and evil, more disorienting still were the quick and genuine smiles of the people, complete strangers who welcomed me into their neighborhoods and homes, the easy conversations that I was able to have, scarcely haunted by the awful shared history of our two countries.<\/p>\n

\tNo, the Vietnamese have not forgotten what happened, but they have given us a humbling demonstration of the human capacity to get on with things, to get over even the most atrocious of life’s chapters and to recover.“<\/p>\n

\tTip: Ich lese gerade\u00a0 das gro\u00dfartige Buch von Bao Ninh – The Sorrow of War<\/a> – , ein Kriegsroman aus der Perspektive eines Nordvietnamesen. Bao Ninh war selbst Soldat. Von den 500 K\u00e4mpfern seines Bataillons \u00fcberlebten nur 10.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBao Ninh, Kriegsveteran\u00a0 und Autor<\/em><\/p>\n

\tW\u00e4rmste Empfehlung! Ein trauriges Buch, mit gro\u00dfem Atem geschrieben, da\u00df einem die nordvietnamesischen Soldaten, die man seinerzeit als ideologiegetriebene kommunistische Killer-Roboter sah, in ihrer ganzen menschlichen Tragik nahebringt. Hier ein ber\u00fchrendes Interview<\/a> eines amerikanischen Veteranen mit Bao Ninh, der damals auf der anderen Seite stand. Ninhs Buch wird von der englischsprachigen Kritik unter die ganz gro\u00dfen Kriegsromane gez\u00e4hlt – von Remarque bis Vonnegut -, und zwar zu Recht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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