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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 (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...
...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...