[The Roof Rat Review.]
Jenny Erpenbeck. Heimsuchung. , 2008. Spirit of Büchner: those same clean cuts in the prose whether she's going minute by minute or year by year. I regret that I didn't start reading her considerably earlier.
The Roof Rat Review
- Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (trans). Detective Story. Knopf, 2008 (Detektívtörténet, 1977). Not bad, but strangely minor; Kertész had one subject, and deviating from it even partially yields an accomplished genre exercise.
- John Crowley. Four Freedoms. William Morrow, 2009. It’s spooky how easily the WWII home front becomes a vanished Camelot, and Crowley knows it.
- Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (trans). The Bridegroom Was a Dog. Kodansha, 2003 (犬婿入り, 1993). Marriage to animals, marriage to the dead.
- Vera Tobin. Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot. Harvard University Press, 2018. The curse of knowledge is a fine narratological tool, the emphasis on pleasure essential.
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