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Barcarola is dedicated to the late Paul Dessau, a German composer who shared Henze's Marxism. Henze's political beliefs stem from his upbringing in Nazi Germany and his experiences as a soldier in World War II, a background, he says, that "was sufficient to create a politically minded person. Either that or a monk." Explains Henze: "Politics has become so much a part of my thinking and feeling that it is difficult to say where politics ends and my music begins." In 1968 the premiere of his oratorio The Raft of the Medusa had to be aborted...
...another side of the triangle is the man who engineered the liner's demise, a Nazi spy posing as a Dutch salvage expert. Code-named the Otter, he is the illegitimate son of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence, and thus has unlimited backing in a behind-the-lines war of disruption and sabotage aimed at closing the Port of New York...
Also in the combat zone of the spirit is Stefan Kanfer's Fear Itself (Putnam; 215 pages; $12.95). Set for the most part in Europe, New York and Washington, his novel is a deeply felt portrayal of Nazi savagery, the specific horror of the Holocaust, the courage of the few, and a slumbrous, insensitive America. It is largely the story of Niccolo Levi, a talented young Jewish actor who, by late 1943, has joined the underground in his native Italy because, as he says, "nobody promised anything except survival, which is what an Italian Jew did best...
...movie career even though he can barely speak English. However, Levi's disappearance from a film studio sets off a cross-country chase. With a sackful of disguises, Levi makes his way to Warm Springs, Ga., where F.D.R. is soaking his paralyzed legs. The showdown brings on Nazi agents and a three-way shootout, though that is not the way the story ends...
...blood between its pages, Fear Itself is a celebration of life. Kanfer, Books editor of TIME and author of The Eighth Sin, a 1978 novel about Nazi efforts to exterminate gypsies, writes with wit, subtlety and passion. Not all the ire is directed at the death-camp butchers. In passages as sardonic as any ever written about war-bloated Hollywood, Kanfer describes the unconcern of some successful American Jews for their doomed brethren in Europe. It is a part of the terrible secret that Fear Itself embodies in an exciting work of fiction...