Volume 25, Number 1 · February 9, 1978
Troubling Comedian
By Thomas R. Edwards
Rockinghorse
by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Richard Flantz
Harper & Row, 408 pp., $12.50
Adam Resurrected
by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Seymour Simckes
Harper & Row, 356 pp., $4.95 (to be published in April) (paper)
A novelist whose first book was published here seventeen years ago can hardly be called 'new,' but Yoram Kaniuk is new to me and a writer who should, I think, be more widely known. His first two books—The Acrophile (1961) and Himmo, King of Jerusalem (1969)—are out of print, but Adam Resurrected (1971) will soon be reissued in paperback, and his new novel Rockinghorse has just appeared. Both in their different ways provide evidence of what seems clearly a writer of remarkable gifts.
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