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Author: Josipovici
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Sep 2004
 | Goldberg Variations
by Gabriel Josipovici
Independent Publishers Group $25.95 Paperback
ISBN: 1857545974
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A Review of: Goldberg: Variations
by Jeff Bursey
It sounds like an ideal job for an author, to put a man to sleep by
reading to him, but Samuel Goldberg's task is made more difficult by
the stipulation that he can't read from works already written.
Instead, he is asked to come up with new material every night for his
employer, Tobias Westfield, a condescending pseudo-philosopher who is
unable to find rest. This is the conceit which begins the latest novel
from Gabriel Josipovici, who has had published fiction, plays,
criticism, essays and a memoir.
Novels about writers often read as an inside joke, and can be
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| Nov 2006
Josipovici's Survey
by Jeff Bursey
Since 2000, Gabriel Josipovici has published a memoir of his mother, two novels (Goldberg: Variations was positively reviewed here in September 2004), and had another come out, Everything Passes, in September. Despite this prolific output, he is not well known. "Gabriel Josipovici is one of the major contemporary British authors," one critic states in the online Literary Encyclopedia. Read more...
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