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gabriel josipovici On Agota Kristof Every now and again you read a book by an unknown author and you know immediately that you are in the company of greatness. That is a rare and precious feeling. It happened to me when, a few years ago, a friend sent me a copy of Agota Kristof’s first novel, Le Grand Cahier (The Notebook). The utter simplicity of the style, the clarity, the unflinching gaze at a world far removed from any I had experienced and yet curiously familiar – that of a peasant culture on the border of what we take to be Hungary and Germany in the dying moments of World War II – and the deep humanity underlying it all, took my breath away.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:03:36 +0000

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