She knew him in the neighbourhood where they had lived the boy had been kind to her when she was picked on. The other person in the audience who knows Dovaleh is Azulai, a tiny woman, a midget with a speech impediment who is now a medium.
Now a beach resort, was named after Nathan Straus, the owner of Macy’s in New York City and a prominent Jewish philanthropist. I looked up Netanya on the Internet: an interesting factoid is that the town, created in the late 1920s andĪ Horse Walks into a Bar David Grossman Penguin Random House ₹ 699 “‘I want you to see me, really see, and then afterwards tell me.’ Until, one day, Dovaleh rings him up and asks him to attend his performance at Netanya: Yet, decades later, Avishai has erased it entirely from his memory. As boys, albeit from different social backgrounds, they had attended maths lessons with the same tutor and had struck up an unlikely friendship. One, the narrator, is Avishai, a judge who had to take early retirement because his judgements were increasingly filled with rage, and who is now grieving the death of his wife and the imminent loss of his ageing dog. In the audience, it turns out, are two people who had known Dovaleh when he was a boy. As the evening progresses, the act turns darker, with flashes of savage humour but at the heart of this particular night’s bitterly ironical performance is a glimpse of the man’s tortured soul. Much of it is ribaldry no political jokes, he assures the proprietor of the club, though he nevertheless manages to slip in some sly political references. He continues to do so through the nearly 200 pages of the novel. When the novel opens, Dovaleh G, 57, is performing in a dark little basement club in the small town of Netanya in northern Israel. But the protagonist of David Grossman’s tragic novelĪ Horse Walks into a Bar is a stand-up comic, for whom everything is fair game.
Horace Walpole famously remarked that the world is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
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