Proteus
by Morris West
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John Spada runs an enormous multi-national corporation; privately he heads Proteus, a clandestine resistance movement. His aim is to free prisoners of conscience wherever they may be. As the story unfolds, Spada himself becomes an outlaw, and holds the world hostage.Tags
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What is the difference between people who claim to be doing violent things "for the good of society" and those who do things for terrorist reasons against certain groups in society. this book poses this but doesn't really answer it. Leaving it for the reader to decide the moral and ethical arguments. Still relevant today over 30 years after it was written.
El escritor australiano centrĂł su argumento en un magnate neoyorquino cuya hija y yerno son apresados y torturados en la Argentina del Proceso.Se retrata fielmente a los torturadores, entre otras cosas, Morris West dice que `durante el dĂa son ejemplares padres de familia que besan a sus hijos y los llevan al colegio, van a misa todos los domingo y trabajan en cualesquiera que sea su profesiĂłn, mĂĄs, durante la noche, ejercen su segunda profesiĂłn, cual es, interrogar y torturar hasta el asesinato, sin la mĂĄs mĂnima conciencia de tener a otro ser humano entre sus manos`
Dec 26, 2010Spanish
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Morris West was born in 1916 in St Kilda, Melbourne. At the age of thirteen, he left home to study with the Christian Brothers Order in Sydney, but left in 1939 after 12 years, before taking his final vows. He was fluent in Italian and French, and taught modern languages and mathematics in New South Wales and Tasmania in his twenties. He spent show more four years code-breaking as a cipher officer in the AIF, and then for a decade he concentrated on producing and writing radio plays. West's first novel was published in 1945 and he began writing full time in the 1950s. He went to Italy were he went undercover with Father Mario Borelli, who was working with street urchins, and wrote The Children of the Sun, published in 1957. In 1959, following six months as Vatican correspondent for The Daily Mail, he published The Devil's Advocate, which won the William Heinemann Award of the Royal Society, the National Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Shoes of a Fisherman, the first of The Papal Series, which included The Clowns of God, Lazarus and Eminence, won the Best-Sellers Paperback of the Year Award in 1965. West helped to found the Australian Society of Authors, was chairman of the National Book Council, chairman of the National Library of Australia and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was made member of the order of Australia (MBE) in 1985 and officer of the order of Australia (AO) in 1997. Apart from writing novels, West also wrote screenplays, radio dramas, plays and was also an artist. Translated into twenty-seven languages, his works have sold more that sixty million copies. He also wrote an account on his spiritual journey, A View From the Ridge, published at the end of 1996. Morris West died while working at his desk on 9th October 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Der Fall Proteus
- Original publication date
- 1979
- Dedication
- For
The Prisoners of Conscience
of whom
to our shame
there are far too many - First words*
- Er war ein Mann, der sehr viel reiste, und das höchst komfortabel; daher wirkte er auch kaum wie ein neugieriger Tourist, sondern mehr wie ein ungeduldiger Manager, der möglichst schnell seine GeschÀfte abwickelt und gleic... (show all)h wieder abreist.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ich möchte Sie in der Familie behalten, Caterina!
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