THE SPITZFINDIGKEIT OF HOWARD JACOBSON: AN AUTHOR IN A MELANCHOLY RAGE

 The early reviews of Howard Jacobson’s Kalooki Nights have focused on the anger. There is a lot of it. There is anger about the Holocaust, about casual anti-Semitism, and the refusal of English Jews to make a fuss. But actually, anger doesn’t quite do justice to the complex of feelings conjured by Jacobson’s prose, because the fury is wrapped in black comedy. And while it is intensely specific
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Published on June 13, 2022 03:08
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