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| Etgar Keret |
Pipelines |
| Stories |
Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1992. 168 pp.
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Short as video-clips, Etgar Keret's stories combine postmodernist kitsch with a fine sense of the absurd. This nightmarish world, part-Kafkaesque and part-Lewis Carroll, bears the stamp of a thoroughly Israeli reality. Seemingly realistic stories turn into outlandish fantasy: having been deserted by his girlfriend, Meir meets four dwarfs who help him pass the time with beer and a game of cards; a merchant who suspects everyone else sees a strange Russian dwarf emerge from his own head; a group of Israeli soldiers discover
that the "terrorists" who attacked them are a bunch of Hebrew-speaking rabbits.
The nonsense conceals biting criticism of an abusive society.
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