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A review by lilcookie
Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo
5.0
This is absolutely one of my favorites for the year. I randomly chose this book on the library app and as a result, had no expectations about what was inside besides it being a multi-POV tale of neighbors. It was that and more, and I'm impressed by Nevo's ability to keep the stories conversational and interesting. Highly recommend. Here's the quote I'll keep thinking about:
"Sigmund Freud, you understand, was a very wise man, but last night, after I finished the last volume in the collection and put it on my night table, I thought that he made one mistake. The three floors of the psyche do not exist inside us at all! Absolutely not! They exist in the air between us and someone else, in the space between our mouths and the ears we are telling our story to. And if there is no one there to listen-there is no story. If there is no one we can tell our secrets to and sharpen our memories on and find consolation in, then we talk into an answering machine, Michael. The main thing is to talk to someone. Otherwise, alone, a person has no idea which of the three floors he is on, and he is doomed to grope in the dark for the light switch."
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"Sigmund Freud, you understand, was a very wise man, but last night, after I finished the last volume in the collection and put it on my night table, I thought that he made one mistake. The three floors of the psyche do not exist inside us at all! Absolutely not! They exist in the air between us and someone else, in the space between our mouths and the ears we are telling our story to. And if there is no one there to listen-there is no story. If there is no one we can tell our secrets to and sharpen our memories on and find consolation in, then we talk into an answering machine, Michael. The main thing is to talk to someone. Otherwise, alone, a person has no idea which of the three floors he is on, and he is doomed to grope in the dark for the light switch."