A review by jake_
The Ship by Hans Henny Jahnn

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

As masterful a weird tale as The Turn of the Screw but written in a stranger and more intense style... highly recommended.

From Eugene Lim's review:
 

the intro namechecks both melville and giorgio de chirico and the book indeed is an odd combination of nautical metaphysics and surrealism’s insidiously creepy emptying out.

an intense mystery story, not unlike the slow build-up of a bela tarr movie. in places it moves at a wild pace like a murder story’s final confrontation or a chase scene; other times it lingers endlessly over each character’s neurotics and guilt and anxiety–everyone in it an active raskolnikov. (and maybe the book is one long crime and punishment minus the denouement–just accusations and guilt.)