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John C. Russell of Leverett House and Meriden, Connecticut; Sydney R. Sewall of Lowell House and W. Hartford, Connecticut; James R. Shea Jr. of Leverett House and Quincy; Jay M. Spitzen of Quincy House and Brooklyn, New York; Roger B. Swain of Quincy House and Arlington...
...Directions calls "The Cannibal" a novel "halfway between nightmare and myth." Hawkes has taken a decaying German village, Spitzen-on-the-Dein, and used its rubble as a stage-set for a fever-dream, and for a series of enlarged, fore-shortened images which obstinately refuse to tie into the story...
This story stabs into Spitzen-on-the-Dein and its people at various times during world wars and an American occupation. The U. S. military government is administered by a venereal-diseased motorcyclist named Leevey. The book's narrator--who only narrates for a dozen-odd pages throughout--eventually kills Leevey, overthrows the occupation, and founds a new Germany...
...Drunken Census Taker. To tiny Spitzen-on-the-Dein, which soon seems a microcosm of all Germany, the year 1945 brings desolation, misery and hunger. The town "was as shriveled in structure and decomposed as an oxen's tongue black with ants." A lonely horse nuzzled the gutters as children hung to its tail; the undertaker had no more embalming fluid for his corpses; "everyone wore grey and over their shoulders were hitched empty cartridge belts." From the old concentration camp near by, the D.P. inmates burst out to freedom to add their misery to that of the gutted...
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