Word: jakovic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRAVELS TO THE ENU by Jakov Lind...
...when Jakov Lind was an eleven-year-old schoolboy, the Nazis goose-stepped into his home city of Vienna, sending him fleeing to Holland and a lifetime of Diaspora. Something more than a Jew without a country, Lind became a displaced artist as well, without a sure tradition or even a language. He wrote at first in German; now he uses English. He lives in London, in New York, in Majorca. He has variously conducted his literary experiments in short stories (Soul of Wood), novels (Landscape in Concrete), autobiography (Counting My Steps) and even scores of radio plays...
...writer," he says, "is someone who hates himself and loves the world." In Jakov Lind's game, one out of two is not bad. -By Melvin Maddocks