His narrator is trapped in an angry masculine wistfulness which is awful to behold in its masturbatory disconnection from the world's real possibilities and pleasures.' Etgar is 'not much of a stylist - you get the impression that he throws three or four of these stories off on the bus to work every morning,' and his 'wild, blackly inventive pieces.might have been dreamed up by a mad scientist rather than a writer. Ī review of Missing Kissinger by Todd McEwen describes Etgar Keret's locale as that of 'male confusion, loneliness, blundering, bellowing and, above all, stasis. Stories from this book are now included on the Israeli high school syllabus. Etgar Keret’s first book, Pipelines, was published in 1992, and sur-prised his readers with its unique style. The daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth named the book as one of the 50 most important works in Hebrew. Etgar Keret resides in Tel Aviv, is married to the actress, screenwriter, and children’s author Shira Gefen (daughter of Yehonatan and Nurit Gefen), and is the father of a son, Lev. The book was a popular success and considered author's breakthrough creation. A short story in this style is like a slap in the face.' Reception Keret says: 'I would call it subjective realism, I am trying to show things the way they feel.' Keret explains that his work is influenced by Franz Kafka: 'Kafka tries to reach his moral goal by disorientating the reader. The protagonists are Average Joes ' taking impossible things seriously and grave matters lightly'.

About fifty stories span two hundred and fifty pages. Each story is no more than couple of pages long, presented in laconic sentences with use of intentionally spare, antiliterary vocabulary. The book is an anthology of surreal ambiguous and very short stories. Missing Kissinger is a second book by Etgar Keret.

לא באנו להנות by Etgar Keret