![]() "The genius of “Fever Dream” is less in what it says than in how Schweblin says it, with a design at once so enigmatic and so disciplined that the book feels as if it belongs to a new literary genre altogether." The New Yorker review of Fever Dream suggests that this novella represents a new genre of storytelling-the reviewer writes: ![]() ![]() Always though events are closely anchored to one or another universally human fear: the fear of paralysis the fear of abandonment the fear of dying the fear that one's children are in danger the fear of being trapped. The novel asks you to banish any thoughts like "what is going on?" from your mind as you read, and to yield to its unhinged and unexplained storytelling style.Īs in a real fever dream-as in a nightmare-the events in the novel move in shuddering and unpredictable ways, from the mundane to the terrifying and back again. The story is told in dialog, and neither of the participants in the conversation are fully connected with a rational world of cause-and-effect. As I read I was gripped by a suffocating sense of dread that never let up. ![]() ![]() I finished the story last night and I'm still magnificently unsettled. ![]()
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