The Escape: A Novel - ISBN:0374148783

The Escape: A Novel

Date: 15 April 2011, 01:58

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If the name `Haffner' has made you think of a similarly named individual (and yes, the joke is made explicit in the book) then this also hints further at the `cleverness' of the writing. In a postscript to the book, Thirlwell identifies 46 writers from whom the book contains "quotations, some of them slightly adapted". This list includes, amongst others Thomas Mann, Groucho Marx, Leo Tolstoy, William Shakespeare and George Eliot. Academically, this is clever but perhaps it accounts for the slightly cold feeling I got from reading the book. In terms of style though, there are hints of several writers who I do like, including Milan Kundera, John Updike's Rabbit and Philip Roth's Portnoy, none of whom feature on Thirlwell's list. Thirlwell's writing isn't derivative as such, but the overriding sense was that he puts me in mind of some great authors without reaching that level himself ....yet.
At one point, the narrator muses "but no, just right now, I'm not quite in the mood for Haffner, and his confusions", and I'm afraid I sort of knew what he meant.

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