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SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB (240 pp.)-Uwe Johnson-Grove...
There is often high art in knowing when to say nothing at all. and Uwe Johnson has mastered it. One of a handful of young German writers (TIME, Jan. 4) who are just now working the literary equivalent of Germany's economic miracle, Johnson, 29, has produced a provocative novel full of cryptic clues and calculated silences, inviting the reader to fill in the blank spaces with his own imagination. The result is a remarkably intimate look at life in East Germany, a finely shaded inquiry into the small tensions of a divided world...
Last week Bonn's new Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel officially scrapped the Europa Panzer idea, declared that West Germany would produce a flashy new tank of its own. French defense officials had gotten word of the decision long before their Charles de Gaulle had signed his new pact with Bonn. But the canceled deal was bound to set minds on both sides of the Rhine wondering just how useful their treaty really...
Running out of steam-and questions -Erhard looked around the room for support from Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel. They, like Erhard, are pro-British, and like Erhard, have grave reservations about Adenauer's comradeship with De Gaulle. But neither was prepared to bring down the government; Schroder found a sudden fascination in his thumbnails; Von Hassel shuffled papers...
Trains & Bicycies. Like Böll and Grass -and most of his Group 47 contemporaries-Uwe Johnson, 28, views today's Germany as the dangerous and corrupt legacy of yesterday. But his main target is less the confrontation of the past than the misunderstood present. Johnson, who grew up in East Germany and moved (not fled, he insists) to the West in 1960, has become famous writing about the side he came from and the interplay across the border. Johnson's books seem to offer Germans the gloomiest of choices. East Germany is a police state, less oppressive...