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Humor, rage and growing up on Mr. Shteyngart's planet
2014
Overview
The shutki continue to fly in Mr. [Gary Shteyngart]'s direction even after -- or maybe especially after -- he becomes a successful novelist (\"The Russian Debutante's Handbook,\" \"Absurdistan,\" \"Super Sad True Love Story\"). Treating his parents to dinner at the revolving restaurant atop the Marriott Marquis to celebrate his mother's birthday, Mr. Shteyngart is a sitting duck as his father fires off this one: \"I read on the Russian Internet that you and your novels will soon be forgotten.\" While that may not sound exactly like a joke, it's riotous compared with what he tells his son at another dinner: \"I burn with a black envy toward you. I should have been an artist as well.\" Yet, for all his Chekhovian gloom, Mr. Shteyngart's dad is still capable of enlivening Gary's childhood by telling him outlandish, funny stories, like \"The Planet of the Yids,\" a sci-fi saga about a Jewish planet under constant attack by volleys of pork. Mr. Shteyngart summarizes his father's duality -- and his own -- by referring to \"the rage and humor that are our chief inheritance.\" After graduation, he moves to New York and falls for Pamela, a woman who has everything, including another boyfriend. \"I love Pamela,\" he writes. \"She is what I've been waiting for all my life. A chance to lower myself into complete abasement, a chance to beg for someone's love over and over again, knowing I will never get it.\" Pamela later serves a jail term for following a man into a public bathroom and hitting him in the head repeatedly with the claw end of a hammer. (\"How quickly the term 'Pamma Hamma Slamma' would be coined.\")
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