Word: jakov
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...nter Grass set the style. Finding himself unable to dramatize the horrors of the Nazi era through the consciousness of a responsible man, Grass's imaginative and very successful solution was to see the years of horror through the sensibility of a dwarf. Following his lead, Jakov Lind, Uwe Johnson and Ingeborg Bachmann have made mutes, idiots and psychotics their means of confronting the bestiality of Nazi sadism on some sort of equal footing...
SOUL OF WOOD, by Jakov Lind. The author, whose Austrian Jewish parents were killed by the Nazis, picks relentlessly at the fabric of guilt and complicity that made all humanity an accessory to Germany's crimes. Lind has a mocking, graceful wit that is both casual and lethal...
SOUL OF WOOD, by Jakov Lind. The author, whose Austrian Jewish parents were killed by the Nazis, picks relentlessly at the fabric of guilt and complicity that made all humanity an accessory to Germany's crimes. Lind has a mocking, graceful wit that is both casual and lethal...
SOUL OF WOOD by Jakov Lind. 190 pages. Grove...
These disturbing fables might have as their epigraph the theme of Goya's nightmarish etching cycle, the Caprichos: "The sleep of reason produces monsters." With merciless humor, Goya gave the forms of grotesque man-beasts to 18th century hypocrisies. Jakov Lind, writing cheerily of cannibals and cripples in Nazi Germany, imprisons the reader in sweaty dreams of guilt. The guilt is not merely German. Lind's force lies in his ability to suggest that the sleep of reason in this century produced not only monsters but a monstrous complicity-a pact signed and mutually witnessed by murderers, accessories...