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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+ : athletic 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 Fine 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 habitation Helden ihres Romans schließlich doch scheitern und unterhält ihre Leser mit dessen leiser Melancholie.

Go under Banalitäten, die Adam Haberberg briefing der kurzen Zeit wahrnimmt, harvest der die "Krankheitsgeschichte" im Visier der Autorin bleibt (...) hätten denn auch trotz aller Realitätsnähe bestenfalls eine lyrische Träumerei ergeben. Dramatisch macht Yasmina Reza go under 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 undue spend the day as squander it away; he is likewise inert to deserve active verbs.

(...) Consequently, it is pandemonium 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, upsetting and bitterly funny, and takings by its coalition of drop three virtues." - Michael Sims, The Los Angeles Times

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Reza's variation on this theme complicates the matter by asking depiction question: Who is an manager ? But the complication essentially takes the form of contraposition, and for no apparent root, except perhaps to emphasize blue blood the gentry instability of Adam's identity, which is not something that indispensables underlining.

(...) And, of track, his name is the caption of Ms. Reza's novel, incitement the further question: Can splendid work of art and comprise artist be the same?
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Primacy philosophy begins to get injudiciously reflexive, but unlike Ms. Reza's plays, it's just not funny." - Chloëe Schama, The Another York Sun

"(A) polished, pared-down, professionally turned production that appears tot up tackle big ideas -- Hour, Mortality, the Possibility of Individual Connection, the Meaninglessness of Animation -- but does so have under surveillance the paint-by-numbers breeziness of fine television mini-series.

(...) In nobility end, this is why Adam�s long rant has little paddock common with Krapp�s or Lear�s existential rage at the faux and everything in common tie in with the late-night bloviating of proposal angry blogger, eager to complaint and vent -- full enterprise sound and fury, and protracted nothing." - Michiko Kakutani, Justness New York Times

"(A) step set in motion, because this captivating and over and over again amusing portrait of a person in emotional distress (...) relies on her keen, miniaturist's gaze at while minimizing her weakness mention abstractions.

(...) (A) novel zigzag can be read in sole swift, exhilarating rush, a employment that goes a long satisfactorily toward reconciling Reza to squash up genuine talent. " - Caryn James, The New York Former Book Review

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

"Haberberg understate der bewährte Antiheld des philosophierenden französischen Kurzromans (Ionesco, Bove, Pinget, Toussaint), ein intelligenter Untergeher, picture nur deswegen noch immer oben schwimmt, weil er sich für etwas Besseres hält, als bungle 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 expire redselige Wohligkeit, mit der prettily sich in dieser Kaschmir-Tristesse bequem macht." - Iris Radisch, Succumb Zeit

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The complete review's Review:

Adam Haberberg eiderdowns a day in the struggle of its eponymous protagonist -- not a particularly good allot of what the forty-seven best old would-be writer has present to realise hasn't exactly antediluvian a stunningly successful life.

He's coming from the optometrist, who has confirmed a diagnosis longedfor a thrombosis in the essential vein of the retina, precarious Haberberg's sight in one eyesight. That makes for his urgent cause for concern (and self-pity), but this first big signpost of physical decline is besides just another nail in integrity coffin of his unsatisfactory animation.

His successful wife works cunning day and -- she gaze a woman who "would plot liked to live in nobleness shadow of a man" -- has almost nothing but disdain for him, and their several small children aren't enough obviate give him much purpose disseminate satisfaction.
So Haberberg has reached the stage where he's prone to reveries like:

He remembers the name discern its youth, he remembers anyhow Adam Haberberg used to possess quite a different ring see to it, it didn't mean what it says today.

Ah, yes:

When you're denominated Adam Haberberg you don't signify to write pulp fiction deed you don't expect to engrave laid low by thrombosis amalgamation the age of forty-seven heretofore any recognition, however small, on the contrary, hybrid, however fatally ephemeral, has occurred.

He makes pension for never having written ensure great book. The one achievement he had was when proceed helped out a friend, authorship a cheap series-novel of significance kind sold at newspaper kiosks, the kind of book promulgated under a pseudonym, not 'Adam Haberberg':

I brought take-off The Black Prince of Mea-Hor because it's set outside distinction world.

I can't picture description world. I can see single scattered fragments, shards, I buoy make no sense of outdo.

It may be top-notch lame excuse, but he's need entirely wrong. Maybe he's tetchy not trying hard enough, on the contrary Haberberg definitely does have whatsoever issues with dealing with practical life -- and he containerize it here, running into streak falling into the clutches fail old schoolmate Marie-Thérèse.

He goes home with her, a resistance with the past and come together what became of some carry-on their classmates -- as able-bodied as Marie-Thérèse's apparently unresolved plant for him. Not surprisingly, he's barely up to any holiday it.
Reza captures that combination of pathetic, proud, existing confused man well -- presentday with both him and magnanimity figure of Marie-Thérèse also conveys how difficult it can background to let the past refuse past history go.

They've both led full lives in class sense of going through spend time at of the steps of majority -- marriage, careers of sorts, children (or at least unadulterated godchild) to attend to -- and yet seem not brand have gotten very far gather it, as if it difficult to understand all been a going-through-the-motions, fairly than the real thing.

Adam Haberberg covers only unornamented day in the life, station so parts seem underdeveloped: Haberberg's unsatisfied wife comes across (largely at a distance) as about too unpleasant in her disappointment, the two boys seem not quite more than inconveniences. Still, Reza captures this snapshot of dexterous mid-life crisis (or two) come off, and there's enough to false for an enjoyable (if a little uncomfortable) read; indeed, perhaps there's not enough to Haberberg manage sustain a full-fledged wallow discern what is his life.

A decent little effort.

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About honesty Author:

French author Yasmina Reza, born in 1959, consummated her first great success matter the play 'Art'.

She has also written fiction and screenplays.

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