Speculations about Jakob: Uwe Johnson: and other writings (German Library)
Language: English
Pages: 324
ISBN: 082640975X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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".
A White Heron and Other Stories
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973
Since I didn’t know why his mother had fled — Gone away. — gone away; it wasn’t the only surprise in this cozy political climate of ours. I had just come out of the very house she had left, and when it was Jakob’s turn and he said, “I wish to report that Mrs. Abs is no longer living on Ziegeleistrasse. She left word that she won’t be coming back. That’s my mother,” they asked Was the escape arranged with a passport or UWE JOHNSON 69 through Berlin? “Through Berlin,” because he answered them
know-betters, your educators, offer you. I’ve been lucky, that’s all I mean to say. That is in so far as, seen from today, I’m glad I wasn’t mixed up in the war. In so far as it suits me that I didn’t have to get used to my father, he died in battle, the Jew butcher, the house burner. But I say they could have got to me just as well, and if somebody is op 78 Speculations about Jakob posed to it today, in his own most personal fashion, then he needn’t act conceited about it. — Yes. Don’t take
when you got right down to it,” some people and also the director’s secretary said, arrogant underneath. But long be fore, as far back as his finals, when the oral examination ended for him with the question: would he be willing to as sume this task in the service of science?—while the slanting sun of a June morning beamed into the agelessly skeptical barely kind old-man’s face of the examiner, outlining it sharply as he bent over the examination papers, while the assessor sat in unfocused
sitting waiting on some siding. From his point of view it merely meant that he bore no grudge against Joche and wanted him to enjoy his free time. If they did depend on him, he wanted them to be treated right. Now look, if a man has a certain wish. — You misunderstand me. The basic conditions of any com munity system always get fulfilled: has nothing to do with the philosophy that’s supposed to He behind them. I didn’t say Jakob was to decide how necessary someone’s trip is. He didn’t even
had been standing in hot water. “My father may speak,” she said with her voice. She sat down at the table. (Jonas) And we did not say it. May we live happily in our old age. Everybody got up when Jakob did. Gesine climbed over her stool, and walked around the table and stood in front of him. She lifted her arms to his neck, his hands brushed her shoulders. Their lips touched. (Jonas) And it would have 162 Speculations about Jakob surprised me if she hadn’t kissed him. “Come back,” she said.
