Brief review: The Rabbi of Lud by Stanley Elkin

I’m taking a break from reading and reviewing new books to catch up with
some old ones on my TBR list. I’m also trying to improve my Hebrew
and am currently reading and enjoying the Hebrew edition of Ya’akov
Shabtai’s unfinished last novel סוף דבר (published in English as Past Perfect).

In circumstances when I cannot read with my eyes I read with my ears.
I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Rabbi of Lud by
Stanley Elkin, a writer of whom I became aware while reading his
friend William H. Gass while preparing to review
The William H. Gass Reader. My brief review 
of The Rabbi of Lud appears on Goodreads.