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Soul of Wood made Jakov Lind's reputation as one of the most boldy imaginative postwar writers and it remains his most celebrated achievement. In the title novella and six subsequent stories, Lind distorts and refashions reality to make the deepest horrors of the twentieth century his own.
Set during World War II, "Soul of Wood" is the story of Wohlbrecht, a peg-legged veteran of World War I, who smuggles Anton Barth, a paralyzed Jewish boy, to a mountain hideout after the boy's parents have been sent to their deaths. Abandoning the helpless boy to the elements, Wohlbrecht returns to Vienna, where, having been committed to an insane asylum, he helps the chief psychiatrist to administer lethal injections to other patients. But Germany is collapsing and the war will soon be over. The one way, Wohlbrecht realizes, that he can evade retribution is by returning to the woods to redeem "his" hidden Jew. Others, however, have had the same bright idea.
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Jacqueline Carstensen
reviewed Soul of Wood on June 17, 2015
Soul of Wood
Another book I read months back and am only now coming to reflect on, consequently I can't say much in detail. One thing though: it didn't enthrall me. It was good, and true, and truly its author's own, but it seemed such a random flight of fancy at times that I almost let it go, let it glide away weightless to realms where I didn't care to follow. Or no: weightless? Clearly not. A wartime tale about a paralysed Jewish kid minded by an ex-army cripple with a persecution complex? There's weight here, plenty of it. But the mystical stuff on the mountain with the kid while his erstwhile protector struggled through endemic corruption back in the city trying to fence his booty - all that seemed such a left-turn it might almost be another story. I didn't wanna follow the cripple, I guess; I wanted to stay with the kid, and for the kid not to be a fairy story. But what the hell: it could just be me. The prose was good: sparse, brutal; it cut to the chase. But the whole thing left me mystified more than moved. Could be I'll give it another try, but on the basis of this novella and a couple of dark-as-pitch short stories I'm guessing that, for now at least, Lind isn't quite my style.
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