Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press. Wednesday. March 12, 1975 new York inspires German author new Day although he is hardly a household name in North America Uwe Johnson is one of the tiny handful of living German novelists whose name at least has a Chance of being recognized. In his Homeland he has been famous since 1959, when he defected to West Ger Many from East Germany in order to publish speculations about Jakob a novel which did t Accord with the dogmas of socialist realism. Now 41 years old he has since pub 1 i s h e d three More novels which although the experts say the translations do not do Justice to the imaginative complexity of or. Johnson s own writing have won i limited but respectful audience. In the latest of his books anniversaries Arcoui t Brace Jovanovich or. Johnson used a United states Selling the Book is the first Hall of a novel to be completed when the author writes his Way out of a difficulty in the final chapter which he says does t want to be As it stands thus anniversaries is the record of six months in the life of Gesine Cre Spahl an Emi Gree from East Germany who works in a Manhattan Bank and lives on the upper West Side with her fatherless 10 year old daughter. By Means of a tape recorded diary the heroine preserves the events of her Days Between August 1967, and the following Gebru setting these against a counterpoint o f flashbacks from her background in the Germany of the Hitler Era. The . Portion of Yesline s Story echoes her creator s own experience As an inhabitant of Manhattan during the same tons about Jakob. Or. John son suddenly knew she had come to this country for a Brief stay at the same time As himself and remained Here be cause her child took a liking to new York. Or. Johnson let it be known at Harcourt that a new novel was hatching in his head whereupon he was detached from his duties. They told he said the other Day As he stopped off at har court on a visit from West Ber Lin where he now lives that i period. In 1966, Uwe Johnson j could have an office in tie pronounced Tovay Johnson i building without any rent to came to new York with and they would leave me wife and Small daughter for a j alone for one year. It was a two year stay. His initial Pur-1 very generous arrangement pose was merely to gain a by except that a conscience conditioned by a marxist Edu cation could t accept the poverty he saw on the Side streets off the Avenue where he lived i Middle class Comfort. People say to me As a Ger he said your country has done certain things i have t6 say yes i know if i became an american citizen i would have to take on your guilty too and i want no part of closer knowledge of a country the office was in the International Trade department and i which he had observed on an liked i earlier visit mainly from inc this was 19u7, and needless j lecture platform. Wanting Lolo say. Since the last chapter is live and work like an amen still to be written the work sex can he look a Job in the school i department of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich his present pub Lisher and spent inc first year a s an Ordinary Manhattan wage earner. As or. Johnson tells it i ran into a person i had used in a purely imaginary this individual was miss Gestine cres Spahl who had borne the child of the protagonist of Specula tended Well beyond a year. All of it is rooted however in that period when or. Johnson was living on the upper West Side like has heroine and trying to see new York with the fresh Eye of her 10-year-old Daugh t e r without the apologies usually voiced by the native new yorker or. Johnson de clares he liked the City. He might have stayed permanent j Harper named William k. Bill Harper 35, has been appointed Manitoba s Northern regional Park super visor tourism and recreation minister Rene e. Toupin has announced. Or. Harper s duties will in clude responsibility for Parks Branch activities and co ordination of tourism recreation and cultural affairs in Northern Manitoba. Prior to his new appoint ment or. Harper was with the department of mines re sources and environmental management in the Pas. From 1971 to 1974, he was Tor of the Pilot land use plan Ning study in the Pas area. 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