Wayne Koestenbaum's My Lover, the Rabbi explores obsessive love in 188 chapters

Wayne Koestenbaum's novel My Lover, the Rabbi evokes the complexities of obsessive love in a contemporary American setting. The tale intertwines themes of forbidden desire, identity, and death, with 188 short chapters that challenge realist conventions. Critics note its fierce and strange narrative style, likening it to the works of Balzac and Proust.

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