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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...
Soon after the Paris press headlined the story of the arrest, l'affaire Argoud was turned into a first-rate international whodunit by the owner of Munich's Hotel Eden Wolff, who said that the S.A.O. leader had checked in there the previous night. Three hours after he had registered, said the hotelman, two men entered the lobby and sent a note up to his room. Argoud came down and spoke to his visitors, who showed him something. All three started out the door together, but then Argoud tried to pull away. The other two grabbed him, hauled...
...Fiedler's critical writings-notably Love and Death in the American Novel. Read thus, The Second Stone offers some of the rarest pleasure of the year, combining the attractions of Scrabble, the double-crostic, literary name-spotting and one-upmanship with the humbler delights of the whodunit. This is a parable and the characters are crazy mythed-up people...
...Whodunit? The hero himself? The American? The Organization? Does the Organization actually exist? Is it just a paranoid delusion? Is the film a study of psychic contagion? an attack on the creeping totalitarianism of modern life? an intricate exercise in confusion? Director Rivette has suggested the explanation he prefers. "My picture is the adventure of a theory-in turn proposed, set aside, revived, distorted, exhausted. The end cancels the original intention. Nothing has really taken place but the scenes themselves." How true...
...Matter of WHO. Agent Terry Thomas of the World Health Organization in a cloak-and-needle WHOdunit about viruses and villains...