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This is a hard book to rate. It is brilliant. Beautifully translated from Yiddish by Daniel Kennedy, BUT the content is hard to digest: an obsessive love affair with a revolver, the oppressive thoughts of suicide, the claustrophobic feeling of being locked into the main character's head almost suffocate the reader, are grim and unsettling. But my! What a book! First published in 1909, it is original, modern and needs to be read.
MrsMalaprop 😱 sounds full-on! 3y