March 1, 2024American book review/The American book review

Forgotten Night by Rebecca Goodman, and: Lilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz (review)

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Literary analysis explores narrative fragmentation and memory in Rebecca Goodman's novel, highlighting how psychogeography shapes historical Jewish identity.

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Narrative receptivity and psychogeography drive ancestral discovery, replacing conventional historical investigation with an immersive, atmospheric collapse of identity.
Sentence fragment structures permit brokenness and jagged particularity to coexist across the text, creating a trance-like rhythm from recurrent sensory impressions.
Literary critique evaluates historical memory through French village landscapes, highlighting how fragmented consciousness navigates ancestral trauma and personal search.

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Leonard Schwartz (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e76bd8b6db6435876e1b44 https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2024.a929666

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Literary analysis explores narrative fragmentation and memory in Rebecca Goodman's novel, highlighting how psychogeography shapes historical Jewish identity.

Forgotten Night by Rebecca Goodman, and: Lilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz (review)

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