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The novel is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp in the years 1942-43, with an epilogue in 1948. It is told through three rotating [=POVs=]: Angelus "Golo" Thomsen, an outwardly easygoing womanizer, who slowly begins to grapple with his role as a [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schreibtischt%C3%A4ter "Schreibtischtäter"]]; Paul Doll, the camp commandant, who spirals ever deeper into delusions to justify his actions and to uphold his manhood; and Szmul, a Jewish inmate who prolongs his life by working as the head of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando Sonderkommando]].
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The novel is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp in the years 1942-43, with an epilogue in 1948. It is told through three rotating [=POVs=]: Angelus "Golo" Thomsen, an outwardly easygoing womanizer, who slowly begins to grapple with his role as a [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schreibtischt%C3%A4ter wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_murderer "Schreibtischtäter"]]; Paul Doll, the camp commandant, who spirals ever deeper into delusions to justify his actions and to uphold his manhood; and Szmul, a Jewish inmate who prolongs his life by working as the head of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando Sonderkommando]].
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The novel is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp in the years 1942-43, with an epilogue in 1948. It is told through three rotating [=POVs=]: Angelus "Golo" Thomsen, an outwardly easygoing womanizer, who slowly begins to grapple with his role as a [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schreibtischt%C3%A4ter "Schreibtischtäter"]]; Paul Doll, the camp commandant, who spirals ever deeper into delusions to justify his actions and to uphold his manhood; and Szmul, a Jewish inmate who prolongs his life by working as the head of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando Sonderkommando]].
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The novel is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp in the years 1942-43, with an epilogue in 1948. It is told through three rotating [=POVs=]: Angelus "Golo" Thomsen, an outwardly easygoing womanizer, who slowly begins to grapple with his role as a [[http://en.[[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schreibtischt%C3%A4ter "Schreibtischtäter"]]; Paul Doll, the camp commandant, who spirals ever deeper into delusions to justify his actions and to uphold his manhood; and Szmul, a Jewish inmate who prolongs his life by working as the head of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando Sonderkommando]].
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* TheAlcoholic: Paul Doll.
* AntiHero: What Thomsen ends up as, ''at best''.
* ArcWords: References to "Walpurgisnacht".
* AntiHero: What Thomsen ends up as, ''at best''.
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* ChivalrousPervert: Thomsen
* ColdBloodedTorture: Mobius and Dr. Entress excel at this.
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''The Zone of Interest'' is a 2014 Novel by Creator/MartinAmis. The story is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp in the years 1942-43, with an epilogue in 1948. It is told through three rotating [=PoVs=]: Angelus 'Golo' Thomsen, an outwardly easygoing womanizer, who slowly begins to grapple with his role as a [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schreibtischt%C3%A4ter "Schreibtischtäter"]], Paul Doll, the camp commandant, who spirals ever deeper into delusions to justify his actions and to uphold his manhood, and Szmul, a Jewish inmate who prolongs his life by working as the head of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando Sonderkommando]].
The novel was adapted into a film, directed by British avant-garde filmmaker Jonathan Glaze and distributed into the US theatrical rights under the name {{Creator/A24}}.
The novel was adapted into a film, directed by British avant-garde filmmaker Jonathan Glaze and distributed into the US theatrical rights under the name {{Creator/A24}}.
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* TheAlcoholic: Paul
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The novel was adapted into a film, directed by British avant-garde filmmaker Jonathan Glaze and distributed into the US theatrical rights under the name {{Creator/A24}}.
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''The Zone of Interest'' is a 2014 Novel by Creator/MartinAmis. The story is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp between the years 1942-43, with an epilogue in 1948. It is told through three rotating [=PoVs=]: Angelus 'Golo' Thomsen, an outwardly easygoing womanizer, who slowly begins to grapple with his role as a [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schreibtischt%C3%A4ter "Schreibtischtäter"]], Paul Doll, the camp commandant, who spirals ever deeper into delusions to justify his actions and to uphold his manhood, and Szmul, a Jewish inmate who prolongs his life by working as the head of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando Sonderkommando]].
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''The Zone of Interest'' is a 2014 Novel by Creator/MartinAmis. The story is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp between in the years 1942-43, with an epilogue in 1948. It is told through three rotating [=PoVs=]: Angelus 'Golo' Thomsen, an outwardly easygoing womanizer, who slowly begins to grapple with his role as a [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schreibtischt%C3%A4ter "Schreibtischtäter"]], Paul Doll, the camp commandant, who spirals ever deeper into delusions to justify his actions and to uphold his manhood, and Szmul, a Jewish inmate who prolongs his life by working as the head of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando Sonderkommando]].
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: All the Sonderkommandos live with this certainty. Later, Paul Doll explicitly tells Szmul when he is going to be killed.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: All the Sonderkommandos live with this certainty. Later, Paul Doll explicitly tells Szmul when he is going to be killed.
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* ArcWords: References to "Walpurgisnacht".
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* IndustrializedEvil: In a way, the whole point of the Kat Zet.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The epilogue starts by recounting the fate of most characters. [[spoiler: It's usually death.]]
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: All the Sonderkommandos live with this certainty. Later, Paul Doll explicitly tells Szmul when he is going to be killed.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Mobius and Dr. Entress excel at this.
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* GasChamber
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Naturally, many are mentioned or briefly appear, and Martin Bormann appears prominently in the story and is cast as Thomsen's uncle.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Naturally, many are mentioned or briefly appear, and Martin Bormann appears prominently in the story and is cast as Thomsen's uncle.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Dieter Krüger
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Polish workers, because their families are threatened with death if they resist.
* FanDisservice: The book goes to great lengths to portray most sexual situations as unpleasant as possible.
* ForTheEvulz: The whole book is a {{Deconstruction}} of the question of "Evil" and human agency in the context of the Holocaust.
* MercyKill: Szmul lures away and quickly kills a boy who used to be a friend of his son.
* MoodWhiplash: Is sure to swiftly follow after every comic situation.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Paul Doll's [[spoiler:last words]].
* FanDisservice: The book goes to great lengths to portray most sexual situations as unpleasant as possible.
* ForTheEvulz: The whole book is a {{Deconstruction}} of the question of "Evil" and human agency in the context of the Holocaust.
* MercyKill: Szmul lures away and quickly kills a boy who used to be a friend of his son.
* MoodWhiplash: Is sure to swiftly follow after every comic situation.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Paul Doll's [[spoiler:last words]].
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* NaziProtagonist: Two out of three.
* RageWithinTheMachine: Thomsen's attempt [[spoiler: at sabotage]], Hannah's attempt to undermine her husband.
* TranslationConvention: The liberal use of German is quite inexplicable from a diegetic perspective.
* RageWithinTheMachine: Thomsen's attempt [[spoiler: at sabotage]], Hannah's attempt to undermine her husband.
* TranslationConvention: The liberal use of German is quite inexplicable from a diegetic perspective.
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''The Zone of Interest'' is a 2014 Novel by Creator/MartinAmis. The story is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp between the years 1942-43, with an epilogue in 1948. It is told through three rotating [=PoVs=]: Angelus 'Golo' Thomsen, an outwardly easygoing womanizer, who slowly begins to grapple with his role as a [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schreibtischt%C3%A4ter "Schreibtischtäter"]], Paul Doll, the camp commandant, who spirals ever deeper into delusions to justify his actions and to uphold his manhood, and Szmul, a Jewish inmate who prolongs his life by working as the head of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando Sonderkommando]].
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!! This work contains examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Paul Doll
* AntiHero: What Thomsen ends up as, ''at best''.
* TheAtoner: Thomsen becomes this, first [[spoiler:trying to sabotage the factory]], and later [[spoiler:working for the Americans on de-nazification]]
* BilingualBonus: There are a lot of German words and phrases in the book, especially in Doll's narratives, and only a small number of them are translated.
* BittersweetEnding: While both [[spoiler: Thomsen and Hannah Doll]] seem to have found a measure of happiness in their lifes after the war, [[spoiler: the circumstances under which they met each other make their relationship impossible]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Thomsen
* NaziGermany
* WorldWarII
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!! This work contains examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Paul Doll
* AntiHero: What Thomsen ends up as, ''at best''.
* TheAtoner: Thomsen becomes this, first [[spoiler:trying to sabotage the factory]], and later [[spoiler:working for the Americans on de-nazification]]
* BilingualBonus: There are a lot of German words and phrases in the book, especially in Doll's narratives, and only a small number of them are translated.
* BittersweetEnding: While both [[spoiler: Thomsen and Hannah Doll]] seem to have found a measure of happiness in their lifes after the war, [[spoiler: the circumstances under which they met each other make their relationship impossible]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Thomsen
* NaziGermany
* WorldWarII
