Immortal Bartfuss

"Aharon Appelfeld creates a spiritual portrait of a man who survived the Holocaust and now resides in Israel. He is an exceedingly insular man, so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist, and yet Mr. Appelfeld succeeds in describing him with great dramatic force and, most remarkably, he preserves the man's essence, his mysterious and sometimes hallucinatory private being. In this respect, the novel offers an extraordinary adventure in character portrayal that is reminiscent of THE STRANGER by Albert Camus, but more extreme in its vision of alienation, more daring in its art."Appelfeld, Aharon is the author of 'Immortal Bartfuss', published 1994 under ISBN 9780802133588 and ISBN 0802133584.