Description
Kashua’s protagonist is a nameless “I” who shares considerable biographical overlaps with the author. His confessions are hardly reliable, making every level of his storytelling suspect, which Kashua further visually underscores by “track changes”-style crossed-out text.
In “The Desire to be Gisella,” David Grossman ponders the root of our fear of the “other” in ourselves and in those we love
Published 06/02/21
One of the realities of our age—or rather—one of the realities of literature—is that often poets and writers do not write in their first language. Or, if they do, this first language is not the language of the culture in which they find themselves.
Published 05/19/21