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...countryside impersonating now a preacher, now a young actor, now a decrepit bank messenger-a "long procession of persons, created by himself, and every one of them fleeing before the police." Sometimes he grew anxious for their safety. And the reader assuredly grows dizzy. Bojer has a graphic, stark style, a trick of creating atmosphere in a single sentence...
...wrecks and lighthouses-though those are not absent-but a peculiarly graphic and moving analysis of a psychology alien to the landlubber; evolved, apparently, out of a sailor's long silent hours between wave and sky. The tales are like etchings, drawn with bold strokes, tense and stark, against the somber background of the ocean; they are best read with one's feet on the fender, safely removed from these portentous winds and waves...
...Significance. The anonymous author writes with a bitter pen. His book is a slashing, venom-dipped arraignment of Jewry, heaving its stinking bulk out of a diseased ghetto. It is a savage, relentless, yet unimpassioned, picture. The style is violent, unembellished. A crammed, stark, narrative. Many of the characters are recognizable...
...York Tribune: "The characters are drawn with a somewhat stark irony, precipitating as much pathos as humor...
...life is like that and whether a nifty here and there would not have helped. As a matter of fact the author, with a relentless logic, has shown that life under the circumstances could not possibly have been otherwise. Though he has created an artistic cross-section of stark bitterness, he is too pessimistic, too penetrating, to be widely popular. Possibly thereby he proves his tragedy is true...