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Book descriptionSwitzerland was not involved with the Scramble for Africa – the cantons hadnt really got themselves organised into a coherent country just yet – but nor did they entirely have the moral high-ground during the most reprehensible phases of the colonial project. Swiss banks quietly did very good business thank you in colonial trade and, despite being landlocked, they even had a few slave ships plying the Atlantic crossing.В№ The most punctual death ships on the Middle Passage…Fast-forward a few decades. Switzerland was, of course, neutral during the Second World War, but again their reputation is not quite as it once appeared. Despite their vaunted Geistige Landesverteidigung or вЂspiritual national defence’ against the Nazis, its now clear that the bankers in Zurich were just as happy taking Reichsmarks as Free French francs, and Switzerland turned out to constitute an enthusiastic market for plundered gold reserves and works of art.Urs Widmers playful but puzzling novel launches a game investigation into the links between these ideas, and their implications for Swiss identity. An old man recalls his time as a Swiss intelligence officer during the war; his son, meanwhile, travels from Zurich to Zaire (as it then was) to look into the disappearance of a brewery manager in Kisangani. Questions are raised in both cases over the morality of trade, ones complicity in other peoples misdeeds, the allure of leadership, and the confusing relativity of black and white in both racial and ethical terms.In one knockabout scene, a character recalls getting drunk on schnapps with Adolf Hitler (вЂWere both mountain people! Berchtesgaden isnt Berlin! Were in the Alps here! And both at home!’), a meeting which ends hours later with the FГјhrer giving him the number of his personal direct line. Fifty years and fifty pages later, the narrator has a similar experience in the Congo when he inadvertently gets on the good side of President Mobutu; again, a private number is handed over which will have a climactic pay-off later on.At other times the parallels are more subtle, and echo with literary history. Our narrator, like Charles Marlow, travels up the Congo River to reach his destination. Unlike Marlow, he finds happiness there, turning black overnight and settling happily into a new home, a new life, and a new race, Europe far behind him. Widmer is responsible for a German translation of Heart of Darkness, and in part this novel is his conversation with Conrad. In part, too, its a meditation on Switzerlands involvement in international affairs. What exactly is being said is never made clear, at least to me – there are themes everywhere, but no neat conclusions, and although the result can feel incoherent at times, its also pleasant not to have everything wrapped up in a bow for you.The English translation comes from Widmers usual collaborator Donal McLaughlin, and is a little creaky by his standards, with lots of phrases that seem to be clinging on to natural English by their fingernails – вЂa portion of meringue’, вЂthe jungle forest’, вЂto gain revenge’, all of them possible but hardly idiomatic choices. Some of this effect may just be in the source material though, which is by any standards a Frankensteinian mishmash of disparate ideas. But never less than interesting, and full of striking metaphors whose import youll be chewing over for some time afterwards.В№Let me gratefully acknowledge Lukas Spiekers blog post Swiss in the Congo and its various links, which I leant on heavily when writing these opening paragraphs.Im Kongo by Urs Widmer original find online kindle book
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