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The title story won the first PEN/UNESCO Award in 1993, and, as in many pieces in this posthumous collection, the setting is a ship on a stormy ocean. The protagonist takes part in the crew's intense physical activity, but he's also secretly alien and apart. Allusions to Conrad abound, and in stories such as "My Captain and I," the secret sharer is a morose first officer, doing his work, furious when he sees himself in the captain opposite him. Auerbach's autobiographical stories in Tales of Grabowski [BKL Je 1 & 15 03] focused on his Holocaust survivor experience, where he fought with the foe in himself. Here the manic story "Cohen" shows that "survival is above absurdity," as two Polish Jewish sailors find their past connection from the Warsaw Ghetto via tobacco bales stacked in the hold of an Israeli steamer off the coast of Ireland in 1974. Not all the stories are as good as these, but the best of them speak with terse drama about the pain and power of being alone. Hazel Rochman
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MA’ARIV Maariv - Israel
Writing that is concise, direct, subtle; not "literary" and most important: gripping and entertaining.
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The title story won the first PEN/UNESCO Award in 1993, and, as in many pieces in this posthumous collection, the setting is a ship on a stormy ocean. The protagonist takes part in the crew's intense physical activity, but he's also secretly alien and apart. Allusions to Conrad abound, and in stories such as "My Captain and I," the secret sharer is a morose first officer, doing his work, furious when he sees himself in the captain opposite him. Auerbach's autobiographical stories in Tales of Grabowski [BKL Je 1 & 15 03] focused on his Holocaust survivor experience, where he fought with the foe in himself. Here the manic story "Cohen" shows that "survival is above absurdity," as two Polish Jewish sailors find their past connection from the Warsaw Ghetto via tobacco bales stacked in the hold of an Israeli steamer off the coast of Ireland in 1974. Not all the stories are as good as these, but the best of them speak with terse drama about the pain and power of being alone. Hazel Rochman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
MA’ARIV Maariv - Israel
Writing that is concise, direct, subtle; not "literary" and most important: gripping and entertaining.
See all Editorial Reviews
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