Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Painful Memories

Man loses memory entirely: nothing to write about; man loses all but the last ten minutes of memory: almost nothing to write about; man loses 24 years of memory from the age of twelve: an interesting premise for literary investigation, particularly about the relationship between memory and feeling. How much is feeling invested memory? What happens to feeling when memory disappears? What happens to memory when it becomes more concentrated in some personal epoch? Krauss's explorations are sensitive and perceptive. They are also highly emotional. The last two pages will make you gasp...unless of course you have already lost too many memories.

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