Daniel Levin Becker
“No surprises? Well, perhaps a renewed sense of the power and complex majesty of this novel, its psychological acuity and attention to detail, its tautness in spite of its sprawl.”
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Daniel Levin Becker
“Everything in The Birthday Party is deliberate and precise, even its imprecision, even its curious word choices, even the long and tortuous sentences unbothered by conventional methods of delivering or sequencing information.”
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Daniel Levin Becker
“Haste suits The Birthday Party, which so often carries itself along with the propulsive momentum of thought, reading breathlessly even as it keeps dilating time to burrow into a moment, a memory, a perplexity, a silent wound.”
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