Munson on Stanišić

Sam Munson has some not very nice things to say about Saša Stanišić‘s How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone:

While the art of catastrophe will tolerate whole constellations of novelistic approaches, it cannot tolerate authorial disingenuousness, which pickles such efforts, turning insights sour, paltry, and false. And this, unfortunately, Mr. Stanišić has in spades.

And that’s the friendly part.