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... of them , Himmelfarb , also suffers ordeal by fire several times : in the Holunderthal purge , in the destruction of the camp at Friedensdorf , and finally in the burning - down of his house in Sarsaparilla . PATRICK WHITE 23.
... of them , Himmelfarb , also suffers ordeal by fire several times : in the Holunderthal purge , in the destruction of the camp at Friedensdorf , and finally in the burning - down of his house in Sarsaparilla . PATRICK WHITE 23.
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... Friedensdorf , is Kafka- like in its intensity ; and all the more horrifying because of the quiet , almost detached manner in which it is presented . What the reader is forced , almost against his will , to accept is the appalling fact ...
... Friedensdorf , is Kafka- like in its intensity ; and all the more horrifying because of the quiet , almost detached manner in which it is presented . What the reader is forced , almost against his will , to accept is the appalling fact ...
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