Etgar Keret's "Autocorrect": Knocking Out Chaos

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Israeli writer and artist Etgar Keret during an interview at his home in Tel Aviv on November 5, 2020. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
In 33 short stories, Israeli Etgar Keret summons all human baseness and tenderness to smile at the end of the world and inevitable death. Prophetic.
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I subscribeWhat is Jewish humor? A joyful way of pointing out the absurdity of the world. A way of combining laughter and despair to ward off failure, disappointment, and death, since in the end, death always wins. Israeli author Etgar Keret is a master at wrapping his tragicomic stories in it. He does not deviate from this stylistic rule in his latest and stimulating collection, Autocorrect .
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