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Yakov's perceptions, and his determination that the reader should find
Yakov sympathetic all lead him to his unnecessary, ingratiating, "philo–
sophical" conclusion.
The Fixer
is a very ambitious novel, highly accomplished in many
ways, and written in a style which is entirely the author's own; sections
of it are harrowing to read. Yet one can't help feeling that having been
bold enough to go so far back in time, and such a distance from the
surroundings he knows best, the author should have trusted his own
great talent more, and taken still greater risks with his people and their
setting. I have said that Yakov's imprisonment becomes the reader's.
The novelist himself should have contrived to remain a free man.
Dan Jacobson
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SPRING ISSUE 1967
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