Uwe Johnson with Heinrich Boll and Guenter Grass have already
received considerable attention abroad, as significant figures in
the new postwar German literary generation. All three are
experimental writers, if variously so, and concerned with the
social and political identity of Germany today which cannot be
divorced from her past. Johnson is the winner of last year's
International Publishers Prize; he is the most difficult writer of
the three, using, as he does, many devices, abstractions and
symbols. His books, chiefly fragmentary, are written through a
succession of internal monologues although he is not concerned with
the inner man, but rather with the visible, verifiable facts of
existence in the two Germanys. His central character here is Jakob,
a railroad dispatcher, and the trains which go back and forth from
East to West are the symbol of the interchange. The actual story,
which is negligible, shifts from Jakob, to his half ??-sister
Gesine, their father, Gesine's intellectual lover, and the
omnipresent Soviet agent- Herr Rohlfs- shadowing them all ever
since Jakob's mother has gone to the West. The book is notable for
the mood it establishes- the furtive, watchful, deathly stillness;
its neutral, noncommittal tone of voice; and its montage of the two
worlds within one. However, in terms of the general reader,
Speculations is speculative. (Kirkus Reviews)
A collection of the work of Uwe Johnson. It includes "Speculations
about Jakob," a Faulknerian novel; selections from "Anniversaries:
From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl"; Anniversaries II: From the Life
of Gesine Cresspahl"; and the writer's essay on the Anniversaries."
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