Alice's review
The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
by Etgar Keret
Alice's review
The Nimrod Flipout: Stories by Etgar Keret
Alice's review
rating:
I reviewed this for a class I was in so I thought I'd post my revieweven if it is a little to long:
Young Israeli men, their penises, lovers, pets, and business deals are the subjects of this collection of short and very short short stories. Keret speeds through the lives of his lonely characters barely stopping for plot and refusing conclusions but making plenty of space for some phenomenally funny details of Israeli urban life. His characters “puke chopped liver” and encounter a pest control man who calls himself “The Eichmann of Roaches”. The casual masculinity of Keret’s writing (exemplified in his story “Actually I’ve Had Some Phenomenal Hard-ons Lately”) makes this collection an enjoyable, if at times unsatisfying read. His stories often start with an unusual premise: “So let’s say I’m dead now, or I open a self-service Laundromat, the first one in Israel.” Several of the stories read like fables with advise giving fish or people who live on the moon an...more
Young Israeli men, their penises, lovers, pets, and business deals are the subjects of this collection of short and very short short stories. Keret speeds through the lives of his lonely characters barely stopping for plot and refusing conclusions but making plenty of space for some phenomenally funny details of Israeli urban life. His characters “puke chopped liver” and encounter a pest control man who calls himself “The Eichmann of Roaches”. The casual masculinity of Keret’s writing (exemplified in his story “Actually I’ve Had Some Phenomenal Hard-ons Lately”) makes this collection an enjoyable, if at times unsatisfying read. His stories often start with an unusual premise: “So let’s say I’m dead now, or I open a self-service Laundromat, the first one in Israel.” Several of the stories read like fables with advise giving fish or people who live on the moon an...more
