A stimulating read

[goscilo]

Dear Colleagues,

To add to the rash of recent book recommendations--anyone interested in a 
text by an inspired, witty storyteller with an acute sense of  absurdity 
and self-irony (especially where "Jewish identity and mores" in the context 
of the USSR is concerned) should try Grisha Bruskin's PAST IMPERFECT, 
translated  by Alice Nakhimovsky and just issued by Syracuse UP.  It's 
disarmingly beguiling--shades of Dovlatov, Zoshchenko, and Joseph Heller. 
Eloquent evidence that Bruskin's not "merely" a painter!

Helena Goscilo

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