Simple Stories

"There is little unalloyed rage in SIMPLE STORIES: the least alloyed is directed West....The national message here...may seem overexplicit, but Mr. Schulze leavens it with a fertile wealth of stylistic implication.....Aside from a whiff of Brecht, Mr. Schulze's disconnections, ellipses and alienations, sometimes comic,suggest a Raymond Carver or a Frederick Barthelme: the bad air of the contemporary world and the odd deformations that it produces. Here the pollutant--the mark left by the cold war and its aftermath upon a divided Germany--is more evident. The stories make up in necessity where they may fall a little shore (only a little) of the artfulness of these masters."Schulze, Ingo is the author of 'Simple Stories', published 2002 under ISBN 9780375705120 and ISBN 0375705120.