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This review is from: Limbo: A Novel (Paperback)
Limbo established Saraf's intelligence and originality as a novelist, but I wasn't too excited by the fantastic rural vista in which the story unfolds, and I was frankly irritated by the author's choice of a child protagonist. Although it's technically impressive and theoretically laudable when a adult novelist succeeds in inhabiting a child's persona, something about the actual practice makes me uneasy. Is the child doing double duty as the novelist's fantasy sex object? Is the writer trying to colonize fictional territory that rightfully belongs to children? Or does the ageing literato, lacking the perks of power and feeling generally smallened by the culture, perhaps believe himself to be, at some deep level, not an adult at all? I confess to being unappetized by all three possibilities; and so, fairly or not, I found myself wishing that Saraf had written about a full-grown man. Like its father ''Ulysses'' and its grandfather ''Moby-Dick,'' ''Limbo'' has encyclopedic aspirations. But in this case, the child is no father of man.
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