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A review by rogerb
The Ship by Catherine Hutter, Hans Henny Jahnn
3.0
I don't know how I came by this - perhaps Ginger John sent it to me (seems very plausible).
It's hard to rate this; it's a difficult book to read but getting from page to page is easy enough. What's it about? It's an allegory for ... something. The role(s) of men as they interact? The only woman in the book "disappears" and may have been murdered and may have been raped, and may not. As the preface says: "reading this book is like listening to the silence in public squares".
I'm glad I read it: if nothing else it's an insight into modern German literature in the inter-war years. It's the first of an unfinished trilogy, and I can live with the other two not existing. I suspect it was very hard to translate, and from time to time that is clear.
Hmmmm.
It's hard to rate this; it's a difficult book to read but getting from page to page is easy enough. What's it about? It's an allegory for ... something. The role(s) of men as they interact? The only woman in the book "disappears" and may have been murdered and may have been raped, and may not. As the preface says: "reading this book is like listening to the silence in public squares".
I'm glad I read it: if nothing else it's an insight into modern German literature in the inter-war years. It's the first of an unfinished trilogy, and I can live with the other two not existing. I suspect it was very hard to translate, and from time to time that is clear.
Hmmmm.