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Title: Thr unwizard of Oz.
Review: In this book, Mr.Oz goes to war against all rules -- and the rules win.He breaks the narrative up into short passages, each with a cryptic headline, and jumps from point of view to point of view, sometimes within the same sentence. All of a sudden he pops into the narrative (as the 'fictional narrator'} to explain that it's poetry I have been reading and that he understands how wierd it is to set a story in the town of Bat Yam.From then on the reader meets Mr Oz every now and then, sometimes in the guise of the 'fictional narrator'sometimes in the flesh in his in his home in Arad. Why? I couldn't figure it out. Was he also getting bored with the story's characters?The upshot of this all, at least for this reader, is a complete lack of tension, and a complete lack of interest in the characters and their fate.There must be something in those rules.
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