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לא באנו להנות by Etgar Keret5/10/2023 Keret forgoes easy moralizing and refuses to politicize the personal or to offer an obvious message. In the case of that particular story, there’s also an actual explosion - a suicide bomb - and the story’s power lies in the immediacy of its ending: a bomb-widowed husband dreams of the foot of his dead wife slowly stroking his face. The best of Keret’s stories, “Surprise Egg,” say, from his 2006 collection “The Nimrod Flipout,” explode with distortion. Not that Keret is completely to blame his genre is the parable, and if it weren’t for the demands of the market, these stories would be individually packaged rather than bound in books. And yet despite the inclusion of a few foundation-rattling standouts, even the best punk records ultimately leave the listener under the spell of undiminishing sameness. Etgar Keret’s story collections are like good punk rock records: fast, fun and cultishly admired.
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