Word: uwe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...testimony poured forth, the outcry from West Germany's press and public forced Defense Minister Uwe von Hassel to promise a "reexamination" of Gehlen's organization, and reportedly Gehlen will retire soon. Von Hassel added lamely: "There will always be cases of infiltration in any intelligence service." But the Gehlen group must have set a record of sorts. At one point, testified Felfe, his Russian bosses urged him to get a transfer because there already was a surplus of Soviet agents in his department. Shortly before their arrest, added Felfe, he and Clemens received letters of commendation...
Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world...
Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world...
Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world...
...power over it. When a traditional writer tells exactly what motive a character has. he offers the reader the relief of a label that allows him to put aside his questions about the character and consider the subject-and the story-closed. By refusing to do this. Uwe Johnson makes the matter of Jakob's life a matter for continuing speculation. Jakob moves out of literature into reality-like a friend who suddenly, for no easily discernible reason, commits suicide. Why? The question lingers, humbling but provocative. In the novel's larger frame the reader is forced...