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Re: Das Boot Question
Posted by: Meg Rosenfeld ()
Date: July 24, 2004 08:07PM

This comes under the heading of "Once a graduate student of dramatic art, always a tiresome academic."

One of the great appeals to the reader/viewer made by a work such as Das Boot is that it enables us to experience, imaginatively, some of the horror experienced by the U-Boot men, whether or not what they dreaded ever came to pass. This is, of course, one of the classical appeals of tragedy, as described by Aristotle: " . . . through pity and fear, effecting a proper purgation of those emotions." In other words, getting emotionally wrung out feels obscurely good.

How about those of you who are knowledgeable about the mechanics of a U-Boot, whether through personal experience or through study? Does this book/film effect you in the way described above, or do you have an entirely different mode of processing the experience?

If this question makes you roll your eyes and feign acute nausea, I apologize and you need not dignify it with an answer.

Regards,
Meg

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