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A review by violetturtledove
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
What a beautiful little book. It's a tiny snapshot, beautifully and uniquely observed, of a few moments in time and I wish the author had lived long enough to put more of these moments to paper. The section about Saul Silverman is incredibly touching considering how few pages are spent on him.
This book won't give you any solid facts about Greenwich Village in 1946/1947. But it captures the feelings of one person's unique experience of it, and that feeling is incredibly comforting. I wanted to curl up and both devour the book in an evening and also draw out the reading as long as I could.
This book won't give you any solid facts about Greenwich Village in 1946/1947. But it captures the feelings of one person's unique experience of it, and that feeling is incredibly comforting. I wanted to curl up and both devour the book in an evening and also draw out the reading as long as I could.