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The Dance of Genghis Cohn, published in French as La Danse de Genghis Cohn in 1967 and in English translation in 1968, is at once a detective novel and an extended essay on the challenges Romain Gary believed the Holocaust posed for European civilization. A satirical treatment of the reluctance of postwar Germany to remember or draw lessons ...
They have been living together ever since, and have grown quite fond of each other, with Cohn teaching Schatzen Yiddish and Schatzen teaching Cohn to sing the Horst-Wessel-Lied. Cohn spends the first chapter winding you up about their unlikely ménage, before he drops his first big joke on page 18.
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By Phoebe Lou Adams. by Romain Gary. New American Library, $5.00. Part fireworks display, part nuclear attack, this surrealist novel is equally amusing and savage, and rockets along at the speed ...
- Phoebe Lou Adams
The dance of Genghis Cohn. Schatz, de-Nazified by tribunal and now a police chief of a city in the new Germany, is haunted by the ghost Genghis Chan. He is enmeshed in the investigation of a series of murders-22 male victims who died with their pants off and an expression of ineffable bliss on their faces.
5/5: A very pleasant surprise. What starts out almost as a one-liner — a Jewish dybbuk takes possession of the German officer who had him and his family shot — turns into a dark, surreal tour de force. It’s a difficult novel to describe, an experience rather than a story. Its themes even are difficult to describe: modern culture, war, Judaism and Israel and their relation to Germany, the ...
- Robert Wechsler
Jul 17, 2022 · by. Romain Gary. Thais Warren 's review. Jul 17, 2022. really liked it. This book was a bit of a fever dream, so so smart so so dark. The kind of humour that makes you cackle and then realise you’ve shed a tear. 2 likes · Like ∙ flag. Sign into Goodreads to see if any of your friends have read The Dance of Genghis Cohn .
- Thais Warren
The dybbuk is the ghost of Genghis Cohn, an unsuccessful comedian in pre-WW2 Warsaw, that has entered the body of Herr Schatz, the German officer who has given the command to execute Cohn and others. At the last moment Cohn, in the attempt to make a sarcastic gesture, turns his bare behind to Schatz and tells him to kiss it.
- Romain Gary
