Desolation. (New Books).(Book Review)
American Theatre, November, 2002 by Baldaro, Frank J.
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by Yasmina Reza, Translated from the French by Carol Brown Janeway, Knopf, New York.
138 pp, $19.95 cloth.
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BECAUSE IT NEVER WAVERS FROM A single point of view, Yasmina Reza's Desolation completely gratifies as an acerbically funny stream-of-consciousness experiment. In fact, it coughs up regret, discontent, misanthropy, sadness and despair with such sustained eccentricity as to be almost poignant. It takes the form of a cracked monologue, the broken outpourings of a cantankerous old Jewish man, Samuel Perlman, who half-kvetches to himself and half-hectors a 38-year-old ...
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