Barley Patch Central Europe Peter van de Kamp

Peter van de Kamp

an eager ten-year-old in search of a father

and an actor friend—attempt to postpone the postwar reckoning under the constant threat of air raids and starvation

400 terrified officials

and at least as philosophically minded as his author: “Everything has suddenly become so transparent that one can’t see through anything anymore

Barley Patch Central Europe Peter van de KampBarley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fictionor so he thinksforever. Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fictionor so he thinksforever. Using the form of an oblique self interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question "Must I write?" and proceeds to expand from this small, personal query to fill in the details of a landscape entirely unique in world letters, a chronicle of the