Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher
As this novella is set in a TB sanatorium, readers may look for debts to Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain. The sensibility of Scarred Hearts, however, belongs to another world: Bukovina, Polish Galicia, and German-speaking Prague.
For all Max Blecher’s experience of Paris, this is plain writing, never portentous, always attentive to detail, [...]
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Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher - Review
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen - Review
Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel by Rivka Galchen
The novel is also very funny. The sheer oddness of Leo’s thoughts, and the inadvertently comical way in which he articulates them, break the tide of analytical information and make the story race along. Galchen owes debts to Thomas Pynchon: her sinister meteorological collective, the 49 Quantum Fathers, is [...]
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