A Family Failure

In this German-originated nightmare in ink a young man’s elders attempt to transform him into a tree . Quintessentially European in tone and conception, it’s been compared with THE METAMORPHOSIS, yet A FAMILY FAILURE occupies a category of its own. The novel, a bestseller in its native land, never received much attention in America (despite a good English translation by Eva Figes). That’s a shame, as its core allegory, concerning society’s attempts at molding its citizenry into abstract... Voir plus