Book review: The Method Juli Zeh

摘要

The cleverest thing about Juli Zeh’s novel of dystopia The Method, translated from the German by Sophie-Ann Spencer, is the way it hoodwinks the reader by beginning with a fictive citation from a book purportedly called Health as the Principle of State Legitimacy, Berlin/Munich/Stuttgart, 25th edition, by one Heinrich Kramer. One of the exhortatory lines in the foreword to this book runs as follows: