I do not mean that it is about a celebrity, but one of a more intense consciousness, a wrestler, if you will, with darker demons. The ingenious thing here is to give us the coming of age story of a Hasidic Jew who is not merely an artist, but a great one. About what art is, what it does, what it is for. Think about it: if you tell lies so that people realize the truth, you’re serious. This book is intense, stark, vivid, replete, dreadful, astonishing and right. He knew how to write, when to describe, how to persist, when a point had been made.
It is the first book I’ve read by Chaim Potok, but it will not be the last. The book is summarized in its epigraph: “Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.” – Picasso.
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