Title: Grade B Roth
Product review: This is Roth's effort at being Kafka. But the transformation made here does not have the striking originality and effectiveness that Kafka's does. Roth has a formula here which he plays out to the end. And the whole premise of the work is simply not very interesting. With Roth the effort to prove and justify is strong and this often leads to some of his worse fiction. This is mediocre Roth which means its language still has a vitality greater than most. But it does not convince and it does not move. It appears that the formula disappears once one seeks for true elegance.
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