Short Fiction · Character
Lieutenant Klenze
A German U-boat officer whose mind fractures at sea, leaving him raving of a pursuer beneath the waves that no depth charge can reach.
supporting
Also known as Klenze, poor Klenze, the madman Klenze
First appearance: The Temple
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A deceased officer who went mad and perished after carrying an ivory image back into the sea; his fate foreshadows the narrator's own.
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Klenze commands a wartime submarine whose crew watches him unravel as something in the water begins following the boat. His terror is not cowardice but recognition — he alone seems to understand what is hunting them,…
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- Protagonist
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professional · ambivalent
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