![]() ![]() Binet's question for himself is this: When writing what is ostensibly a story, even though it's something that actually happened, can details be invented to help readability, drama, intrigue, etc.? He quickly decides the answer is "no," because doing so is a cop out, and unfaithful to history. ![]() Binet tells his story in 257 "chapters" ranging in length from several pages to a single sentence. Not really fiction, not really history, HHhH is a combination of and meditation on both. And, uniquely, it's the story of how Binet wrote the story itself. ![]() It's also the story of his assassination by Czech and Slovak freedom fighters. Laurent Binet's 2012 novel-like piece of writing, HHhH, is the story of Nazi monster, Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed the Butcher of Prague, and one of the main authors of the Final Solution. ![]()
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