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...KARL MALONE is down with his fellow workers, but perhaps didn't realize they include people working in TV. The Utah Jazz basketballer, an outspoken advocate for NBA players locked out by team owners, appeared on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee last week, passing picketing ABC workers to do so. Malone's agent said the hoopster was ignorant of the strike and was asleep when his driver wheeled through the picket line. A spokesman for the striking ABC employees said the union accepts the highly plausible explanation. Later, Malone visited Central Park to film a video for a virtual...
...novel opens about two generations before the Holocaust in the Austrian village of Neufeld. There, a young civil servant named Karl has just converted from Judaism to Christianity, thereby following in the footsteps of almost all of the Jews in the city. His reasoning is that he wishes to be promoted to municipal secretary, a position he has been working toward for 17 years but also a position which his faith has prevented him from achieving. Christian sentiment, however, scorns the newly converted as Jewish at the core in spite of any baptism ceremony they may have undergone. Karl, while...
...complicate matters, a woman named Gloria, whom Karl's mother took in when Gloria was 18 and Karl was four, returns to the village, and Karl falls desperately in love with her. As rumors of their love fly around the village, Karl and Gloria must flee in search of safer havens. Reaching Karl's mother's native village, the couple settles in a country home and prepares for a better life. Karl, however, begins to show signs that he is still sympathetic to his Jewish roots, and in spite of their Edenic country home, the pair will soon have...
Remarkably, Appelfeld has succeeded in creating a novel without a single like-able character. Karl's selfishness, his sexual attraction to his former nanny, his willingness to do anything for his promotion; all of these characteristics repel us from him, but Appelfeld never tells us any redeeming qualities Karl might have had. We cannot even sympathize with Gloria as a possible victim of Karl's desires. Appelfeld never tells us if Gloria returns Karl's love, and in the end she comes off as being simply weak. Strangely, Gloria possesses an almost robotic tendency to observe the Jewish traditions...
...Karl Taro Greenfeld