Dear Editor:
I am querying you as to a possible review of The i Tetralogy.
The i Tetralogy is a fictionalized account of the devastating effects of the Holocaust. The culmination of four decades of reflection and introspection, my therapeutic work with Holocaust survivors, and my own experience as an American Jew — the tetralogy captures the internal destruction of this epochal event, providing a powerful perspective into the lives of its victims and perpetrators, as well as the legacy it has left behind.
As to the tetralogy: assaying the monumental impact of the Holocaust, the tetralogy elucidates a truth abut humanity. The Holocaust has forever defined the species as indelibly damaged, capable on a molecular level of killing and consuming its own. Experiencing this unvarnished — perhaps axiomatic — truth, which no revisionist can deny, the reader ponders the risk of forgetting, sanitizing, “sweetening” the Holocaust.
As you well know, books like this struggle; however, reviews have been excellent, many appearing on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. Bookflash.com has a press release on the book itself as well as personal information about me. Selections from each of the four novellas may be accessed at my publisher’s website, www.hatsoffbooks. com. A major and recent review has appeared on Breenibooks.com, April 2008. Interviews with me have appeared in Bookpleasures.com, Subtletea.com and Derek Alger, of Perigee.com, has just completed one in April, to be published with other interviews by that magazine within a year.
The book has been a decade in the writing. I believe it to be of significance.
A remarkable review by editor David Herrle was published in his ezine (25 pages!). The autobiographical essay which ends my book, titled Raison d’Etre, was published in its entirety with a critical introduction in New Therapist Magaine, May/June 2006, a special issue on the Holocaust in South Africa. And The Jewish Telegraph in Manchester, England, published a full-page interview with me in August 2006. I have also been reviewed in Bengal, India, Quill & Ink.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mathias B. Freese, CSW
