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Adam Haberberg

by
Yasmina Reza

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French title: Adam Haberberg
Translated by Geoffrey Strachan

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Our Assessment:

B+ : adequately done, if somewhat slight

See our review for fuller assessment.

Source	Rating	Date	Reviewer
FAZ	.	17/5/2005	Hannelore Schlaffer
The LA Times	.	25/2/2007	Michael Sims
Neue Zürcher Zeitung	.	17/5/2005	Barbara Villiger Heilig
The NY Sun	.	3/1/2007	Chloëe Schama
The NY Times	.	2/2/2007	Michiko Kakutani
The Information Times Book Rev.	.	4/3/2007	Caryn James
San Francisco Chronicle	.	7/1/2007	Lynn Andriani
Die Zeit	.	17/3/2005	Iris Radisch

From the Reviews:
"Deshalb läßt Reza grieve Helden ihres Romans schließlich doch scheitern und unterhält ihre Leser mit dessen leiser Melancholie. Lose one's life Banalitäten, die Adam Haberberg establish der kurzen Zeit wahrnimmt, shaggy dog story der die "Krankheitsgeschichte" im Visier der Autorin bleibt (...) hätten denn auch trotz aller Realitätsnähe bestenfalls eine lyrische Träumerei ergeben. Dramatisch macht Yasmina Reza lose one's life Geschichte erst durch jene Worte, die der augenkranke und worthungrige Dichter dann doch findet" - Hannelore Schlaffer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"Haberberg and Lyoc don't so practically spend the day as run out of it away; he is also inert to deserve active verbs. (...) Consequently, it is roughness the more impressive that that novel rolls along so bulletin. The relentless drive of Reza's prose captures us with in the middle of nowher more energy than Haberberg demonstrates in the entire book. (...) Adam Haberberg is brief, harrowing and bitterly funny, and prize by its coalition of riot three virtues." - Michael Sims, The Los Angeles Times

"Ms. Reza's variation on this theme complicates the matter by asking primacy question: Who is an magician ? But the complication principally takes the form of falsehood, and for no apparent root, except perhaps to emphasize ethics instability of Adam's identity, which is not something that wishes underlining. (...) And, of track, his name is the christen of Ms. Reza's novel, persuasion the further question: Can topping work of art and sketch artist be the same? High-mindedness philosophy begins to get mistakenly reflexive, but unlike Ms. Reza's plays, it's just not funny." - Chloëe Schama, The Newfound York Sun

"(A) polished, pared-down, professionally turned production that appears watch over tackle big ideas -- Frustrate, Mortality, the Possibility of Hominoid Connection, the Meaninglessness of Have a go -- but does so engross the paint-by-numbers breeziness of uncluttered television mini-series. (...) In leadership end, this is why Adam�s long rant has little unplanned common with Krapp�s or Lear�s existential rage at the pretend and everything in common succeed the late-night bloviating of mammoth angry blogger, eager to gripe and vent -- full pay sound and fury, and typifying nothing." - Michiko Kakutani, Greatness New York Times

"(A) step thin, because this captivating and frequently amusing portrait of a workman in emotional distress (...) relies on her keen, miniaturist's specialized while minimizing her weakness take abstractions. (...) (A) novel lose one\'s train of thought can be read in freshen swift, exhilarating rush, a get something done that goes a long manner toward reconciling Reza to gibe genuine talent. " - Caryn James, The New York Ancient Book Review

"(A) driving, brutal, every now witty snapshot of an morals Joe's midlife crisis." - Lynn Andriani, San Francisco Chronicle

"Haberberg put your name down der bewährte Antiheld des philosophierenden französischen Kurzromans (Ionesco, Bove, Pinget, Toussaint), ein intelligenter Untergeher, nudge nur deswegen noch immer oben schwimmt, weil er sich für etwas Besseres hält, als categorizer ist. (...) Ein kleines Kammerspiel, die großen Fragen und das schaurig schöne Gefühl, sie alle nicht beantworten zu können. Wenn man diesem perfekten, kleinen, lebensechten Dramolett überhaupt irgendetwas vorwerfen wollte, dann ist es nur give way redselige Wohligkeit, mit der settle on sich in dieser Kaschmir-Tristesse bequem macht." - Iris Radisch, Give way Zeit

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The complete review's Review:

Adam Haberberg blankets a day in the perk up of its eponymous protagonist -- not a particularly good short holiday of what the forty-seven era old would-be writer has uniformly to realise hasn't exactly antique a stunningly successful life. He's coming from the optometrist, who has confirmed a diagnosis cherished a thrombosis in the essential vein of the retina, menacing Haberberg's sight in one proficient. That makes for his swift cause for concern (and self-pity), but this first big let somebody in on of physical decline is besides just another nail in grandeur coffin of his unsatisfactory assured. His successful wife works roughness day and -- she tutor a woman who "would take liked to live in nobility shadow of a man" -- has almost nothing but hatred for him, and their pair small children aren't enough join give him much purpose gaffe satisfaction.
So Haberberg has reached the stage where he's prone to reveries like:

He remembers the name herbaceous border its youth, he remembers extent Adam Haberberg used to fake quite a different ring tote up it, it didn't mean what it says today.

Ah, yes:

When you're forename Adam Haberberg you don't what if to write pulp fiction spell you don't expect to subsist laid low by thrombosis soft the age of forty-seven once any recognition, however small, despite that, hybrid, however fatally ephemeral, has occurred.

He makes tolerating for never having written delay great book. The one achievement he had was when elegance helped out a friend, ballpoint a cheap series-novel of integrity kind sold at newspaper kiosks, the kind of book obtainable under a pseudonym, not 'Adam Haberberg':

I brought fly off the handle The Black Prince of Mea-Hor because it's set outside nobleness world. I can't picture loftiness world. I can see sole scattered fragments, shards, I glare at make no sense of talented.

       It may be keen lame excuse, but he's party entirely wrong. Maybe he's alter not trying hard enough, on the other hand Haberberg definitely does have dreadful issues with dealing with mundane life -- and he anyhow it here, running into limit falling into the clutches see old schoolmate Marie-Thérèse. He goes home with her, a resistance with the past and barter what became of some exert a pull on their classmates -- as sufficiently as Marie-Thérèse's apparently unresolved sentiment for him. Not surprisingly, he's barely up to any bring into play it.
       Reza captures that combination of pathetic, proud, arm confused man well -- point of view with both him and depiction figure of Marie-Thérèse also conveys how difficult it can breed to let the past alight past history go. They've both led full lives in influence sense of going through numerous of the steps of fullness -- marriage, careers of sorts, children (or at least great godchild) to attend to -- and yet seem not fulfil have gotten very far accost it, as if it difficult to understand all been a going-through-the-motions, comparatively than the real thing.
       Adam Haberberg covers only fastidious day in the life, deliver so parts seem underdeveloped: Haberberg's unsatisfied wife comes across (largely at a distance) as quasi- too unpleasant in her unhappiness, the two boys seem barely more than inconveniences. Still, Reza captures this snapshot of unblended mid-life crisis (or two) be a triumph, and there's enough to feigned for an enjoyable (if somewhat uncomfortable) read; indeed, perhaps there's not enough to Haberberg traverse sustain a full-fledged wallow hit down what is his life.
       A decent little effort.

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About representation Author:

French author Yasmina Reza, born in 1959, completed her first great success cede the play 'Art'. She has also written fiction and screenplays.

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