Peter Filkins (review date summer 1993)
SOURCE: Filkins, Peter. “The Way They Lived.” Partisan Review 60, no. 3 (summer 1993): 487-93.
[In the following excerpt, Filkins derides the lack of narrative progression in Love and Garbage.]
Halfway through Ivan Klíma's Love and Garbage, the narrator exclaims, “I am not going back and I am not going forward, I am standing in a void, I am standing between two fields, at the meeting point of two calls which intersect each other, I am nailed to the cross, how can I move?” Though this refers...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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