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Kampf's piece is excellent as an historical examination of the traditional problems of Jewish writers in America. By the way, Daniel Fuchs' novel, Homage to Blenholt, whose obscurity Kampf laments, has achieved enough renown to make the supplementary reading list of History 163. Perhaps next year it will be required, and really have status...
THREE NOVELS by Daniel Fuchs: SUMMER IN WILLIAMSBURG (380 pp.); HOMAGE TO BLENHOLT (301 pp.); LOW COMPANY (314 pp.)-Basic Books...
...second book, Homage to Blenholt, the least successful of the trio, is a bitter comedy around the funeral of Blenholt, the Commissioner of Sewers, whom young Max Balkan reveres as a man who made good. Max is an idling dreamer full of fast-buck schemes, who meets the disaster expected by everyone but himself. Some of the family scenes sound like Arthur Kober's My Dear Bella rewritten by Nathaniel West, but all of the novel that is likely to remain with the reader is the figure of Max Balkan's father, the extragedian of the Yiddish theater...
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