Conversation with Piotr Rawicz
Anna Langfus
1961
Piotr Rawicz’s Blood from the Sky is without question the most forceful of recent novels written about the fate of Jews in Nazi Europe. There has been rare critical unanimity in this respect. To find a “poetic equivalence” for life in the ghetto and in the death camps, Rawicz has made use of black humor, surrealist baroque, the absurd, gratuitous…
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