Three Floors Up Nevo

By now many who read this will be aware that the three floors of the apartment house represent the three aspects of freud s vision of man the id arnon on the first floor the ego hani on the second floor and the superego devora on the third floor a point that author nevo also emphasizes about two thirds of the way through the book as he addresses the reader about what he.

Three floors up nevo.

A father suspects that his 8 year old was molested by the elderly neighbor who sometimes babysits for her. The sto ries are very loose ly linked and progress up the three floors each deal ing with a sit u a tion that comes clos er to res o lu tion as the nov el goes up a floor. Nevo has given us the id the ego and the superego all in one novel. Three floors up by eshkol nevo translated by sondra silverston reviewed by marina sofia other press 2017 examining society s ills via the metaphor of an apartment building is not a new venture but it works every time.

Three floors up eshkol nevo trans. Lively tripartite novel by eshkol nevo a highly admired israeli author nevo creates three compulsive narrators three unsparingly candid monologues three stories that expose the psyches of people caught at critical points in their lives perceptive and compelling three floors up plays with the form of the novel itself and keeps the reader absorbed in its sets of triads. Three floors up is a confessional three confessionals to be precise. The read er the unac knowl edged lis ten er to these one sided out pour ings comes to know arnon hani and devo ra inti mate ly but can not pro vide the respons es they so ardent ly want.

Devora a retired judge lives on the third floor. From the hebrew by sondra silverston. Ballard s high rise to the yacoubian building of egyptian writer alaa al aswany from bernard malamud s. Nevo uses devora to remind us not so subtly that these three characters match up rather neatly to freud s model of consciousness.

1 member reading this now 1 club reading this now 0 members have read this book. Best selling israeli novelist nevo his hebrew fluidly translated by sondra silverston cleverly infuses these quotidian albeit schadenfreude inducing dramas with numerology everything is in threes freudian analysis the three floors up of id ego superego the power of secrets plus the greater threat of revenge and the literary necessity for confessions if there is. Three floors up by eshkol nevo 283 pp. Her husband has died her son is estranged and she must build a new life for herself.

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