
By Jakov Lind
Pseudonym of Austrian author Heinz Jakov Landwirth (1927-2007), within the united kingdom from 1954; his most renowned books – Eine Seele aus Holz (coll 1962; trans Ralph Manheim as Soul of wooden 1964) and Landschaft in Beton (1963; trans Ralph Manheim as panorama in Concrete 1964) – are ugly Satires in accordance with his reports as a Jew in hiding in the course of, and using a deep total wisdom of, global struggle . those works have evoked comparisons with Czech writers of interregnum and doom, Franz Kafka more often than not and Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923), for the nice Soldier Schweik (1923); like just about all Czech writers of his set of brain, Lind is deadpan, blackly humorous, tremendous determined. past due novels – Travels to the Enu: tale of a Shipwreck (1982) and The Inventor (1987) – are sf; the 1st compactly combines extraordinary Voyage and Island Utopia, back applyi - See extra at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lind_jakov#sthash.kKASRNmY.dpuf
from internal flap:
This booklet is a significant publishing occasion,
since it marks the reappearance o f a nice
writer, one o f the so much very important literary
figures o f the Sixties. And what a reappear-
ance it is Travels to the Enu is a savage
satire, continuously hilarious and frequently fairly a
bit extra, modelled after quick, yet uniquely
a publication for this time.
Trapped on a excitement cruise in circum-
stances tantamount to a mass hijack and
cast adrift on an island formerly recorded
only in the writings o f an eighteenth-
century Portuguese traveler, the hero of
Jakov Lind’s unique and provocative
story encounters a race o f women and men
whose affinities with the realm o f birds are
striking yet might be basically epidermis deep.
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