Lazar thinks that he will be confronted for the bullying he saw Dovaleh suffer at a youngsters’ military camp, but which he did nothing to prevent. We immediately learn, then, that a key development in the forthcoming pages will be what it is from history that binds these men. “I want you to see me, really see me, and then afterward tell me.” Our narrator is a childhood friend of Dovaleh’s who has been invited to sit in the crowd, hardly aware of why he has been asked to do so. Avishai Lazar is a famous retired lawyer and has only reluctantly agreed to turn up having been disturbed from his life of gardening and leisure by a sudden phone call from Dovaleh. I’m just a plastic mock-up.” Some cleavage or schism between stage or screen persona and the person beneath seems to link cases such as these. This approximate territory is where David Grossman has set A Horse Walks Into A Bar, in which the obnoxious and generally unfunny club comic Dovaleh G - short for Dov Greenstein - takes to the stage in the Israeli city of Netanya in front of a simple-minded crowd which expects to be amused, yet instead observes disintegration and collapse. This shortish novel occurs mostly real-time, and much will depend on whether or not the reader finds Dovaleh convincing, either as a comic or as a confessor. As the former, it may be fairest to say that he mightn’t be superbly funny. The latter episodes drag the novel in a separate direction the extent to which this is balanced satisfactorily is an important gauge into one’s view of the level of success achieved. Its position on the shortlist at least means that The Man Booker International Prize so far approves. I don’t know who or what I am so I will not be able to help you.
Strangelove, said, “If you ask me to play myself I will not know what to do. Without leaving the British it is easy to think of comedians or other entertainers who struggled with mental health. Some of them, like Spike Milligan, Kenneth Williams, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, or Peter Cook - probably the funniest of the lot - remain household names years after their deaths. In Hancock’s case, and possibly Williams’, these struggles were inflicted by their own hands. Sellers, who most may know from The Pink Panther or Dr.
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