by Peter Matthiessen
The point of life is to help others through it— who said that? We must help the living while we can, since the dead have no more need of us. This took me longer to read than I thought it would and when I finished it I was relieved to have finally finished it. I spent the time I was reading it having...
Professor D. Olin Clements (What does the “D” stand for and what is the ultimate implication of the name?), born in Poland, but raised in America, is doing research for a monograph he is writing. He returns to Poland, a place he left as a child, and spends time at a retreat in a former concentration...
Well, I gave it my 50-page test and lost interest. Moving on.
Well, I gave it my 50-page test and lost interest. Moving on.
After nearly 70 years, what is left to say about the Shoah that hasn't already been said? Peter Matthiessen's masterful novel, In Paradise, reveals that there are still many questions. In Paradise also shows its readers just how many of those questions remain unanswerable, even after seven decades.....
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