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A brief pause for a change of tone twix Argall and The Wake ;; short and sharp with no intent to skirt Witz -- but one can say, I've read Cohen's first(?)book, type'd=up as a twenty-three-year-old. Want to buy an opinion? It's good, it's short ; pay no money for it if you need not :: monster name dropping would develop D. Barthelme and J. McElroy whose endorsement is like that of Pynchon's or Joyce's.
Much more of an experiment in language than in thought (assuming there is any real difference between the two), what A HEAVEN OF OTHERS lacks in conceptual rigor it makes up for with associative ingenuity. As an eternal and preternaturally wise child, Cohen's narrator comes off as "believable"... better, compelling. Nevertheless, this feels like a etude or warm-up for something much more grandiose.
joshua cohens a heaven of others is a short, poetic book the language of which seems to mimic the circumlocutive sentence structure and aesthetics of a religious text, which aesthetically matches the content of the story. it feels like a remarkably innovative novel: a young jewish boy dies at the hand of a muslim suicide bomber, a child his own age. because the young suicide bomber wraps his arms around the protagonist in a deathly and explosive hug, he drags him to the wrong heaven. the idea he...
It inspired me to write a novella.
Un Cohen acerbo, imberbe, forse anche prematuro questo di “A Heaven of Others.” Un Cohen che gioca col linguaggio, con i suoi studi di musica, con la lezione di Beckett e Joyce e i primi pruriti DeLilliani. Gioca col linguaggio e già lo ammaestra, lo imbavaglia e poi lo slega, lo disfa e lo rifà: riesce a fargli fare quello che vuole.In un libro privo di trama Cohen cerca di entrare nella mente di un ragazzino ebreo, Jonathan Schwarzstein, rimasto vittima di un attentato islamico che dopo la mor...
I read 3/4 of this book straight through. It is disturbing and magical, and the illustrations work well with the text.This book is about a ten year old Jewish boy from Jerusalem who is killed by a suicide bomber. After dying, he finds himself in Muslim heaven, where he has to navigate being in the wrong place, what to do with the virgins given to him, and so on.I cannot wait to read Witz!
I haven't found a copy of this yet but have read good reviews. I'm looking forward to it.
As much as I liked "Witz," I liked this book much better. I could just see and appreciate Cohen's language play and word play, sliping between thoughts and memory and so on, so much better than in "Witz." Both have some amazing writing, but I could grasp at it better here. That may be a failing on my part and I definitely respect "Witz," but I have to say which one I got into more. This one seems to have a certain charm that I think "Witz" lacked as well. Perhaps "Witz" took on a burden, trying
Exhausting & demanding, but extremely powerful -- not just in the ways you might expect, but also in its evocation of the small details of daily life & family history.
I can't wait to read this.
What is Heaven like? What is Muslim Heaven like for a Jew? I think this is what Joshua Cohen is ultimately unraveling in his first novel. This was a very bizarre read, and it has some trippy picture for you folks who like pictures in books. I thought Cohen did a superb job in looking at Heaven through the eyes of 10 year old boy, if you can really look at Heaven. I could be wrong, but I gathered that Heaven is all together for everyone. "Through time, through dimensions and their lands, a heaven...
I need to be in a certain patient, accepting frame of mind to read books that are stream of consciousness ramblings. I was not in that state for most of this one but plowed through anyway. In spite of appearing, at first blush, to be the product of a fevered/drug-induced night of "inspiration" I think this book probably had a quiet brilliance about it. Unfortunately, although I thought the premise was intriguing, the book just didn't do much for me.
