The Boston Globe, November 26th, 1987
THE RABBI OF LUD, by Stanley Elkin. Scribners. 277 pp. $17.95. What the hell's going on always remains a question for the student of literature, but in the matter of Stanley Elkin it gets literal. Take his new novel, "The Rabbi of Lud." In this 10th brilliant exasperation from the Elkin pen, treating of a distinctly B-list spiritual counselor in New Jersey, flourishes once again where the strained becomes first hilarious, then incomprehensible. As usual, wild banana-peel jokes catch America in rueful, funky slang. As usual, Elkin's rickety plot is a sawhorse supportingall manner of existential...
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