The Death of Lysanda (Paperback) LithuaniaIn fragmented prose halfway between the Old Testament and the playful stories of Julio Cortzar, these tales take to pieces the psyches of two menand a nationat war with themselves. The Death of Lysanda collects two macabre novellas by one of Israel's greatest writers. In the title piece, we meet Naphtali Noi, a recently divorced proofreader, critic, and "creative" taxidermist, given to hallucinations and soon perhaps to add murder to his hobbies. Ants
His work was largely ignored during his lifetime: he made $250 for Locos
and bearing the vulnerability of both the Russian Jewry and the anti-Bolshevik intelligentsia—who had unwittingly become the “enemies of the people”—Hunt satirizes Soviet censorship and the ineptitude of Soviet leaders with acerbic panache
imperialist generals
including the Dongin Literary Award
” (Gerard de Cortanze)
With uncompromising sincerity
and encapsulates the feeling of saudade—meaning
nearly a century of Romanian history
and theme not by authorial exposition
the son vows to avenge his father’s death by murdering his father’s killers
Is there anything waiting for him back home
which reflected the taste of the vanguard