The Boston Globe, February 17th, 1988
THE IMMORTAL BARTFUSS, by Aharon Appelfeld; translated by Jeffrey M. Green. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 137 pp. $15.95. Shadows fall the wrong way in "The Immortal Bartfuss." Although Aharon Appelfeld evokes a very palpable world, the teeming little cafes and the seaside kiosks of contemporary Israel, this world is also the dimensionless existence of a Holocaust survivor. The "immortal" Bartfuss (in English a rather unfortunate epithet not without overtones of irony) is immortal because he cheated death in the camps and became mythic. He is now 50, a citizen of Israel trapped in an abrasive marriag...
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