Ship of Fools (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine Anne Porter
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: August 22-September 17, 1931
- Setting: Aboard they
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Voyages, Class conflict, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Middle classes, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Alienation, Class consciousness, 1930’s, Obsession, Ethnic relations, Anti-Semitism, Ships, Human behavior, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Gypsies
- Locales: Oceans, Veracruz, Mexico, Bremerhaven, Germany
Characters Discussed
Jenny Brown and
David Scott, young American painters living together in a tortured, on-again, off-again relationship, unable even to agree whether their first destination after landing in Europe will be Spain or France.
Dr. Schumann, the ship’s doctor. He has a serious heart condition. More than any other character, he is remote from common prejudices, tensions, and jealousies, but he becomes enamored of La Condesa.
La Condesa (kohn-DEH-sah), a dissolute noblewoman being deported from Cuba to Tenerife.
Siegfried Rieber...
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