Rambling Raconteur’s Reviews > Anniversaries, Volume 1: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, August 1967–April 1968 > Status Update

First definite mention of the crimes against humanity committed during WW2 in Eastern Europe. The horror has been building from the casual to the personal and now extends to the universal.

The glimmers of resistance and humanity amid the horror of 1938 cut through the narrative with real power and heart.

Tensions continue to rise in both the 1968 and 1930s timelines across the January 1968 pages.

Finally discovered what DE stands for! The plodding nature of daily time in 1967-68 contrasts with the jumps in time through the 1930s.

December 1967 introduced by far the most Joycean pages in Anniversaries, juxtaposed so closely to NY Times headlines that they remind me of Dos Passos’ USA.