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COPYRIGHT 2001 Modern Humanities Research Association
Between Sarmatia and Socialism: The Life and Work of Johannes Bobrowski. By JOHN P. WIECZOREK. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, 139). 1999. xi + 269 pp. 25.50 [pounds sterling].
Johannes Bobrowski's works have been interpreted for at least thirty years as esoteric, complex in style and restricted in their focus on the relationship between Germans and their East European neighbours. His evocation of a distant Sarmatian past, still detectable in a landscape scarred with invasions and local feuds, is examined here chronologically and as an essential stage in his search for self-identity within the German Democratic Republic. The opening biographical chapter adds nothing new to known details, but highlights his presence at Kaunas on 28 June 1941 when 3,800 Jews were massacred...
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