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The Messiah of Stockholm
The Messiah of Stockholm | Cynthia Ozick
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Lars Andeming, perhaps overly intellectual and certainly eccentric, is the Monday book reviewer for a Stockholm daily. He is also the self-proclaimed son of Bruno Schulz, a Polish writer who was executed by the Nazis before his last novel, The Messiah, could be published. When a manuscript of The Messiah mysteriously appears in Stockholm, in the possession of Schulz's 'daughter', Lars's circumscribed world of paper, apartment, and favorite bookstore turns upside down, catapulting him into a whirlwind of dream, magic, and illusion.
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The Messiah of Stockholm | Cynthia Ozick
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Finishing another book on my shelf thanks to #Roll100. The tagged was my March #90 pick. @PuddleJumper

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The Messiah of Stockholm | Cynthia Ozick
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I had a shaky start with this book, and ended really enjoying it. Based on a real-life lost manuscript, it explores lost identity, lost family and lost culture, and how those vacuums are filled. There's a progression from febrile unreality towards bland materiality, that in gaining, the MC loses something. The holocaust is woven through the narrative, at times explicitly, at times in the drift of smoke from something roasting or on fire. 👇🏼

Bookwomble Although by the book's end the MC's trajectory has been from night into day, from private to consensus reality, there remains a thrill of the uncertain, the possibility that the fantastic, veiled and withdrawn, is still imminent, its potential to break through and disrupt still alive and ready to reclaim. 4/5🌟 5y
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The Messiah of Stockholm | Cynthia Ozick
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"Rodomontade, long-winded rococo affectations, what poseurs!"
Page 19: Ozick captures my impression of her writing. I'm not sure if this condemns or vindicates her ?
Still, I've committed to giving her the benefit of 31 more pages.
And, ok, I've leant a new word: rodomontade: 'pretentious boasting or bragging'. Again, not sure if this helps my impression of Ozick, but if I use it now to describe Johnson or Trump, I'm bound to finish this book! ?

Bookwomble Strangely, finding an author photo to go with this post somehow makes me feel more kindly disposed towards what I'm reading. Now I can picture her in my mind, she's a person rather than "the author", and I want to hear what she's saying - how weird! 5y
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The Messiah of Stockholm | Cynthia Ozick
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I'm on page 18 and not feeling it yet. Ozick's style seems rather forced and knowing. I'll hold out to around page 50 and hope that it starts to live up to the cover's plaudits.

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