Setting Free The Bears

A wonderfully fresh wildly imaginative notion of a book. The major portionconsists of a journal addressed to Graft from Siegfried Javotnik Siggy ashe spends a l... » 

A wonderfully fresh wildly imaginative notion of a book. The major portionconsists of a journal addressed to Graft from Siegfried Javotnik Siggy ashe spends a long night in a Vienna zoo plotting out details for a zoo bust.His observations center on the night keeper O. Schrutt who torments the smallmammal house by deliberately setting the animals against each other.Interspersed in this midsummer nights diary are lengthy portions of SiggysHighly Selective Autobiography. The Autobiography is his imaginative recapof the lives of his grandparents and parents before he was born. And its ablack humorous sketch of Austria reacting to the war. Then there is an abruptswitch to Graft who with his new girlfriend Gallen is wandering throughEurope. We learn of Siggys death in a motorcycle accident but Graft has hisjournal and is becoming obsessed with the idea of the zoo. In a finaloutlandish and bizarre scene Graft and Gallen indeed bust the zoo withhorrendous consequences. One does not stop to question the madness or themeaning youth in its blind vision? comic revolution? Its activelyoverwhelmingly alive. Kirkus Reviews «