KAUL, Fedor

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   German writer. His sf novel, Die Welt ohne Gedachtnis (trans Winifred Ray as Contagion to this World 1933 UK), begins conventionally enough with a deformed SCIENTIST, thwarted in love, determining to revenge himself on the world by releasing dangerous bacteria he has developed; these turn out to have a memory-erasing effect on humans. The scientist's love-affair forgotten, the novel becomes a post- HOLOCAUST vision in which the remnants of mankind mutate into a roving race of giants in harmony with Nature. The scientist grows old and - remarkably - dies forgiven.

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