{"id":371,"date":"2025-04-28T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:45:52","slug":"josef-and-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/the-expert-of-subtle-revisions\/josef-and-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"On Josef Zedlacher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pull-quote_-Thoughts-are-free-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A pull quote from THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS by Kirsten Menger-Anderson: &quot;The prison might hold his body, but his thoughts are free. He is not a man who must be forgiven, but a man who forgives.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pull-quote_-Thoughts-are-free-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pull-quote_-Thoughts-are-free-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pull-quote_-Thoughts-are-free-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pull-quote_-Thoughts-are-free-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pull-quote_-Thoughts-are-free.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josef&#8217;s story opens at the turn of the 20th century, but uses the present tense because what is right and what is just is an ongoing conversation, as relevant today as it was in Josef\u2019s time. Is he mad? A criminal? A hero? His nature shifts depending on the political lens through which his actions are viewed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The character&#8217;s story was inspired by Johann Nelb\u00f6ck, a young man who murdered Moritz Schlick, the leader of the Vienna Circle (and the inspiration for my character Walfried Engelhardt). Like the clemency petitions that proclaimed Nelb\u00f6ck a hero and Dr. Schlick an unsuitable educator, Josef\u2019s defenders claim he&#8217;s rid Austria of a dangerous thinker, and Josef feels free in a world that does not condemn him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Justice is often depicted as a solitary individual, a blindfolded woman, but it can also be caught in the press of the crowd, pushed forward or back with the energy of its motion. Josef\u2019s story is a reminder that justice is not divorced from the humans who determine it, and that we must remain vigilant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/the-expert-of-subtle-revisions\/about-the-expert-of-subtle-revisions\/\">about the book<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmengeranderson.com\/blog\/the-expert-of-subtle-revisions\/more-early-reviews-of-the-expert-of-subtle-revisions\/\">what people are saying<\/a> about it, or pick up a copy at a bookshop near you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josef&#8217;s story opens at the turn of the 20th century, but uses the present tense because what is right and what is just is an ongoing conversation, as relevant today as it was in Josef\u2019s time. Is he mad? A criminal? A hero? 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