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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...
Like Giinter Grass, his old colleague in the German writers' impromptu workshop Group 47, Lind has evolved less an answer to lunacy than a technique for exposing it. In every work he manages to reduce history to a wild nightmare from which one wakes up laughing. In his latest novel, with a nod to Jonathan Swift, grand master of the savage laugh and the surreal voyage, Lind sets sail on one of his most inspired trips...
...unforgivable sin in any Lind world is logic. Are the Enu a race of mutants-survivors of a nuclear bomb experiment? Or are they the missing link-a throwback to the age of reptiles? Is the island paradise or purgatory? At different times, Lind has it both ways. Consistency, as he sees it, is the hobgoblin of those without other hobgoblins...
...freestyle--1 Richardson Princeton 16:52.50: 2 Caskey, Princeton, 16:59.20; 3 Krauser Penn State 17 12 95 100-yd freestyle--1 Jackson Pittsburgh 51 10 Lind, Princeton, 52.23: 3. Ujevich Pittsburgh 52 87 50-yd backstroke--1 Simon Yale 27.57; 2. Poiner, Brown, 27.80; 3. McCluskey, B.U., 27.82, 200-yd breaststroke--1 Torney, Brown, 2:25.79; 2. Fifth, Pittsburgh, 2:26.49; 3. Woolfolk, Brown, 2:27.33. 50-yd. butterfly-1. Jackson, Pittsburgh, 25.38; 2. Vietz, Yale, 27.72; 3 Lind, Princeton, 25.84. 100-yd. individual medley-1. Ujevich, Pittsburgh, 59.27; 2 Kali Princeton, 1.00:83. 3. Poirier, Brown...