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Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it 15 years ago
Read for my Yiddish Lit class.In a semester of depressing reading, this was possibly the most dismal and hopeless, but that's exactly what it was meant to convey. The story is somewhat from the point of view of the town of Goray itself, and at times this makes the personal repercussions of certain e...
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it 16 years ago
I read most of these for a class, but not all, so maybe I'll get to them someday. The collection is pretty good over all, although I really couldn't get too into Bergelson--he works so hard to give us a melancholy atmosphere, and he succeeds... which makes his story genuinely oppressive and boring. ...
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it 16 years ago
I read most of these for a class, but not all, so maybe I'll get to them someday. The collection is pretty good over all, although I really couldn't get too into Bergelson--he works so hard to give us a melancholy atmosphere, and he succeeds... which makes his story genuinely oppressive and boring. ...
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it 16 years ago
I read most of these for a class, but not all, so maybe I'll get to them someday. The collection is pretty good over all, although I really couldn't get too into Bergelson--he works so hard to give us a melancholy atmosphere, and he succeeds... which makes his story genuinely oppressive and boring. ...
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it 16 years ago
I read most of these for a class, but not all, so maybe I'll get to them someday. The collection is pretty good over all, although I really couldn't get too into Bergelson--he works so hard to give us a melancholy atmosphere, and he succeeds... which makes his story genuinely oppressive and boring. ...
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 17 years ago
Isaac B. Singer's typewriter worked as a time machine. Destination: Seventeenth century, Poland.Coordinates: an extremely believable choral portrait of superstitious dwellers in a Jewish shtetl in the middle of nowhere. Co-starring: -horns and drums- the Messiah (he will show up himself).Warning: be...
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