![]() Here both the desk (which is real) and the house (a tendril of an idea that emerges cumulatively) are weighted down with tremendous symbolism and combine to form the complex apparatus that unites five very different stories. (Moses inscribing the Commandments, Saint Jerome translating the ancient texts, Rabbi Hillel conceiving of the Talmud.) At least it does, unmistakably, in Nicole Krauss’s remarkable new novel, Great House. Overlap a desk with a house-the task of a scribe, the container of a spirit-and the imagery veers into the religious. Massive yet rickety, loaded down with little drawers, one of which is locked with a missing key. Indulge this association: A desk, too, could haunt a writer’s dreams. Upstairs, downstairs, long corridors, vast foyers, dark passages, and mysteriously locked doors. ![]() They say that if you dream of being inside a house, you are dreaming about the landscape of your own mind. ![]()
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