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Het Fantoom Van Alexander Wolf (2013)

by Gaito Gazdanov(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

9048817609 (ISBN13: 9789048817603)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Cossee - Lebowski

review 1: The opening is strong & pulled me right in. But, the rambling narrative soon veered into other territories, not always well or smoothly connected. Some thoughts were fascinating intellectual or philosophical musings, but they lost their punch because they were buried among some longer, less interesting episodes of the book. The ending felt contrived. Perhaps the older translation I read is not as good as the more recent release by Pushkin Press? The uneven tone relegates what could have been 'great' firmly into 'good' territory instead.
review 2: A meditation on chance, purpose, love, life and death by a master of prose; a writer who lived his protagonists' experiences, not merely conjured them. Gazdanov's metaphysical thriller is taut and haunting, much like t... morehe character of the title, and shows in its truthfulness where so much of our contemporary literature is lacking. Anyone who prefers the razor to the cotton bud will love him. Live on, Gazdanov. less

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