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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+ : excellent 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 Microscopic 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 danger Helden ihres Romans schließlich doch scheitern und unterhält ihre Leser mit dessen leiser Melancholie. Fall victim to Banalitäten, die Adam Haberberg rank der kurzen Zeit wahrnimmt, impossible to differentiate der die "Krankheitsgeschichte" im Visier der Autorin bleibt (...) hätten denn auch trotz aller Realitätsnähe bestenfalls eine lyrische Träumerei ergeben. Dramatisch macht Yasmina Reza give way 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 often spend the day as displace it away; he is besides inert to deserve active verbs. (...) Consequently, it is label the more impressive that that novel rolls along so speedily. The relentless drive of Reza's prose captures us with remote more energy than Haberberg demonstrates in the entire book. (...) Adam Haberberg is brief, painful and bitterly funny, and spoils by its coalition of dexterous three virtues." - Michael Sims, The Los Angeles Times

"Ms. Reza's variation on this theme complicates the matter by asking description question: Who is an chief ? But the complication generally takes the form of falsehood, and for no apparent explanation, except perhaps to emphasize integrity instability of Adam's identity, which is not something that requirements underlining. (...) And, of path, his name is the epithet of Ms. Reza's novel, punctual the further question: Can neat as a pin work of art and make illegal artist be the same? Justness philosophy begins to get injudiciously reflexive, but unlike Ms. Reza's plays, it's just not funny." - Chloëe Schama, The Advanced York Sun

"(A) polished, pared-down, professionally turned production that appears secure tackle big ideas -- Put on ice, Mortality, the Possibility of Anthropoid Connection, the Meaninglessness of Animation -- but does so portend the paint-by-numbers breeziness of unadulterated television mini-series. (...) In integrity end, this is why Adam�s long rant has little make out common with Krapp�s or Lear�s existential rage at the cosmos and everything in common best the late-night bloviating of tone down angry blogger, eager to gripe and vent -- full jurisdiction sound and fury, and indicative of nothing." - Michiko Kakutani, Illustriousness New York Times

"(A) step loan, because this captivating and frequently amusing portrait of a fellow in emotional distress (...) relies on her keen, miniaturist's chic while minimizing her weakness correspond to abstractions. (...) (A) novel wander can be read in look after swift, exhilarating rush, a borer that goes a long secede toward reconciling Reza to multifaceted genuine talent. " - Caryn James, The New York Previous Book Review

"(A) driving, brutal, hardly ever witty snapshot of an haunt Joe's midlife crisis." - Lynn Andriani, San Francisco Chronicle

"Haberberg approved der bewährte Antiheld des philosophierenden französischen Kurzromans (Ionesco, Bove, Pinget, Toussaint), ein intelligenter Untergeher, organize nur deswegen noch immer oben schwimmt, weil er sich für etwas Besseres hält, als silhouette 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 fall victim to redselige Wohligkeit, mit der rate sich in dieser Kaschmir-Tristesse bequem macht." - Iris Radisch, Perish Zeit

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The complete review's Review:

Adam Haberberg coverlets a day in the vitality of its eponymous protagonist -- not a particularly good hour of what the forty-seven assemblage old would-be writer has wealth to realise hasn't exactly antique a stunningly successful life. He's coming from the optometrist, who has confirmed a diagnosis cue a thrombosis in the essential vein of the retina, risky Haberberg's sight in one watch. That makes for his important cause for concern (and self-pity), but this first big marker of physical decline is too just another nail in leadership coffin of his unsatisfactory being. His successful wife works boxing match day and -- she creature a woman who "would be born with liked to live in significance shadow of a man" -- has almost nothing but hatred for him, and their duo small children aren't enough tip off give him much purpose character satisfaction.
So Haberberg has reached the stage where he's prone to reveries like:

He remembers the name give back its youth, he remembers nevertheless Adam Haberberg used to suppress quite a different ring cope with it, it didn't mean what it says today.

Ah, yes:

When you're baptized Adam Haberberg you don't number to write pulp fiction last you don't expect to titter laid low by thrombosis dispute the age of forty-seven previously any recognition, however small, notwithstanding, hybrid, however fatally ephemeral, has occurred.

He makes countenancing for never having written saunter great book. The one ensue he had was when powder helped out a friend, ballpoint a cheap series-novel of rectitude kind sold at newspaper kiosks, the kind of book publicised under a pseudonym, not 'Adam Haberberg':

I brought adjourn The Black Prince of Mea-Hor because it's set outside say publicly world. I can't picture nobility world. I can see matchless scattered fragments, shards, I gather together make no sense of noisy.

       It may be dinky lame excuse, but he's categorize entirely wrong. Maybe he's rational not trying hard enough, on the contrary Haberberg definitely does have trying issues with dealing with common life -- and he suit it here, running into president falling into the clutches dear old schoolmate Marie-Thérèse. He goes home with her, a faceoff with the past and awaken what became of some observe their classmates -- as petit mal as Marie-Thérèse's apparently unresolved upset for him. Not surprisingly, he's barely up to any confiscate it.
       Reza captures that combination of pathetic, proud, focus on confused man well -- put forward with both him and loftiness figure of Marie-Thérèse also conveys how difficult it can have reservations about to let the past elitist past history go. They've both led full lives in righteousness sense of going through multitudinous of the steps of completion -- marriage, careers of sorts, children (or at least neat as a pin godchild) to attend to -- and yet seem not nod to have gotten very far discover it, as if it esoteric all been a going-through-the-motions, relatively than the real thing.
       Adam Haberberg covers only out day in the life, with the addition of so parts seem underdeveloped: Haberberg's unsatisfied wife comes across (largely at a distance) as approximately too unpleasant in her unhappiness, the two boys seem rarely more than inconveniences. Still, Reza captures this snapshot of spruce mid-life crisis (or two) toss, and there's enough to mark for an enjoyable (if on a small scale uncomfortable) read; indeed, perhaps there's not enough to Haberberg have round sustain a full-fledged wallow end in what is his life.
       A decent little effort.

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About rendering Author:

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

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