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Mordecai Richler`s Solomon Gursky Was Here
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....s to 1980's. It is the story of the obsession of
Moses Berger, a Rhodes scholar turned alcoholic, with Solomon Gursky, the
charismatic son of a poor immigrant. Solomon, with his brother Bernard and
Morrie, built the massive liquor empire of McTavish industries. Moses is
attempting to write a biography of Solomon, w.... Part 2 of Paper
....ts. Every character in this
novel is in some way corrupt or failure. Moses is an alcoholic who did not
live up to his potential; Bernard is a greedy self-centered bastard;
Solomon is a cheat, when it comes to gambling, women and anything else you
can think of. Richler, through this exaggeration of corruption and
failure, is satirizing the idea that Canada is a second rate nation. One
character, in conversation with Moses, once said:
"Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank fille.... |
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