![]() "He's looking at reality as something personal - he has a very different, absurdist point of view," Handelzalts said.Įl-Youssef's novella, by contrast, is a realistic meander through several weeks in the life of a Palestinian drug user living in a refugee camp in Lebanon in the 1980s. Michael Handelzalts, the books editor of the Israeli daily Haaretz, praised Keret as one of Israel's major young writers. Keret retains a fierce sense of humour that manages to leave the reader with a twisted smile, even in response to a story like My Brother's Depressed, where a dog mauls a child. ![]() Others look at broader questions affecting Israel and Jews, such as Shoes, which undercuts the role of the Holocaust in determining contemporary Israeli identity.Īnd many are shockingly violent - but always a knife in the ribs, never a club over the head. ![]()
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