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Gustaw Herling The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories, translated by Bill Johnston. New Directions, 282 pages, $25.95
Gustaw Herling faced more suffering and depravity in two years than many men encounter in a lifetime. Yet he never lost his fascination for the fine line that separates hope and despair, or for the complex interaction of good and evil that can shape even the most ordinary of lives. "The human organism is an unfathomable machine," he wrote several years after his release from a Soviet labor camp. Nevertheless, until his death in 2000, Herling sought, with grace, eloquence, and discretion, to plumb the depths of this organism he saw pushed to the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Hope without feathers.(Book Review)