A stimulating read
goscilo
goscilo+ at PITT.EDU
Thu Jun 12 13:09:36 UTC 2008
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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