The Beast He Was
Tim Parks: ‘Kapo’, 26 May 2022
Kapo
by Aleksandar Tišma, translated by Richard Williams.
NYRB, 306 pp., £14.99, August 2021,978 1 68137 439 0 Show More
by Aleksandar Tišma, translated by Richard Williams.
NYRB, 306 pp., £14.99, August 2021,
“... Miroslav Blam appreciates his apartment because it’s ‘in the centre of things, yet remains a hideaway’. A mansard at the top of his town’s most prominent building, on the edge of Main Square, it presents several lines of defence. There is a watchful janitor, no lift, many stairs to climb, ‘meddlesome people’ to pass. Even if you find the apartment, you might not find Blam: he may have slipped out along the narrow walkway that crosses the roof, above ‘the abyss’ of Main Square ... ”