{"product_id":"the-tunnel-9780679437673","title":"The Tunnel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe narrator of The Tunnel is a distinguished man in his fifties  William Frederick Kohler  a professor at a Midwestern university. His principal subject  the Third Reich. He has just completed his massive magnum opus  Guilt and Innocence in Hitlers Germany. All that remains to write is an introduction. Kohler sits down to write a self-congratulatory text and finds himself unaccountably blocked. He begins instead to write an entirely other book  another history - that of the historian himself. What he writes is the complete opposite of his clearly argued  causally determined history of the Reich. It is as subjective and private as history is objective and public  as apparently shapeless and stagnant as history is ordered and directive. It is chaotic  obscure  full of lies and disguises  gaps and repetitions. Indeed  his Introduction is so personal that he fears his wife will find it  and he slides the manuscript between pages of his book  where he knows it will not be found. At the same time  Kohler begins digging a tunnel out from the basement of his house. The tunnel comes to mirror Kohlers digging into his life - his feelings  his past  his own few loves and many hatreds. The writing  the digging  the readers reading  continue together  creating a hole driven into both language and the past  getting closer to and fleeing from the secrets of the novels fundamental theme - the fascism of the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280075120693,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679437673","price":226.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679437673.jpg?v=1780619379","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tunnel-9780679437673","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}