Word: linde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Honest Man. Lind, the son of Austrian Jews who were deported and killed by the Nazis, mocks German pretensions of decency with slapstick caricature in the long title story. Wolbricht, the protagonist, prides himself on his honesty. A one-legged veteran of World War I, he is employed by a Jewish couple to care for their paralytic son, Anton. When the parents are ordered off to an extermination camp, he agrees to take care of Anton in return for the lease to their apartment...
...traveler blunders free at last, but the cannibal, too, escapes. "He stepped cautiously down the embankment and vanished in the dark. Like a country doctor on his way to deliver a baby." Evil lives, Lind is saying; it lives...