Fundamentally, there is an inherent tension between the natures of novel versus stand-up comedy.
Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry – and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he’s been summoned to this performance. Fiction set in the world of stand-up comedy gives Grossman a new forum in which to explore old themes, namely the pain of loss, but whether A Horse Walks Into a Bar is a successful novel is an altogether different matter. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman 12,161 ratings, 3. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic – charming, erratic, repellent – exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him.Ī Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. In the end, it's not as much about comedy as it is about witness: Greenstein needs someone to validate his pain, to let him know that he really has survived a life that's kicked him time and time again. WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A Horse Walks into a Bar is a novel as beautiful as it is unusual, and it's nearly impossible to put down.
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