A remarkable achievement… In Mr. Woods's sparkling new translation, the reader now encounters a work that is closer in style, vocabulary, idiom and tone to the original. (The New York Times Book Review)
My thoughts (hastily scribbled on a postcard):
A youthful masterpiece. Definitely a masterpiece; but I feel it has a youthful, undeveloped feel, too. Sesame, for instance, who only ever says, ‘You good child’ - leitmotif or 2D? But the fact that there is no single, monumental event that contributes to the decline of the family, but rather a myriad of failures, individualities and self-perceptions, all of which contribute to the somehow inevitable decline of the family, makes the story and its family engagingly 3D.
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