Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a TraitorA book about bitter fatesboth already known and yet to unfoldand the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people. Alexander Kluges work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our present catastrophes in perspectivecalibratedagainst this historical monstrosity. Kluges newest work is a book about bitter fates, both