‘Expert of Subtle Revisions’ review: History, language aren’t neutral

This is how the paradox of the grandfather was explained for the first time to me: Imagine a boy invented his grandfather. The boy hates his grandfather, and in a bout of anger, he uses the time machine to visit his grandfather as a teenager and kill him. By doing this, the grandfather will not have the opportunity to create a time machine or meet the grandmother, and therefore the boy’s father and thus will not be born the boy himself. His grandfather should be killed, in other words, to make the boy close to existence – but if he does not exist, he will not be able to return in time and kill his grandfather, so the grandfather lives after all and meets the grandmother and invents a time machine and has a son who has a child who hates his grandfather and tries to kill him.

When I was a child, I wondered why the boy hated a lot and why the man did not kill at the present time, so as an adult, I enjoyed it when the imagination about traveling time has difficult personal questions. The new book Kirsten Minger Anderson, “Micro -review expert”, does so completely, while exploring the way history is affected by how to tell it and who does the saying.

The wonderful cover of the novel mimics the introduction of Wikipedia because the first narrator that we meet, is obsession, is the frequent Wikipedia editor. Hase (the German word of the rabbit or rabbit, open the Hi-Zahi) by telling us that it is, officially, not present. It has no birth certificate, nor a social security number, and there are no government records of any kind. However, it is on the Internet, as the title of the book tells us, an expert in accurate reviews, although it is small, it is very important because the language, like history, is never neutral. “Killing” will change to “killing”, for example, “riots” to “protest”, “I was beaten” to “hit it.”

The novel opens on June 11, 2016, Hase’s birthday; She is supposed to meet her father in the Bay of Half Moon. It does not appear, and he is the opposite, and this is the first only in a series of strange events. The apartment participates with Jake, her former father, looted, and all that has been stolen is a laptop from Hase and Jake, “Careful attempts to solve mysterious mathematics problems.” The next day, a strange person looking for her father is contacted. She discovers that the man is associated with the Zedlacher Institute – a shaded organization dedicated to its founder, Joseph Zedlacher, and the solution of the time of travel. More specifically, after a young man named Haskel Gul, who claims Zedlaacher as time traveling.

The second narrator of the novel, Anton, is a professor at the University of Vienna in 1933. Other chapters follow his contemporary Zedlaacher. These historical sections are increasingly focused on the relationship of men tense, although they mean little to each other at first; They only move between the same mathematics, philosophy and definition circles around Professor England and his exclusive group of intellectuals. While Anton can work as an unpaid lecturer at the university in the hope of obtaining a paid professor, Zedlaacher-whose family lost her wealth during the First World War and the collapse of the Austrian Hungarian Empire-works as a book manager and a night manager in a café where he is waiting for the people whose wool wishes.

Hase is a partially wonderful narrator because it is difficult to determine. When others prepare their opinions on them, they do not correct her, and do not reveal much of herself to readers. It is clear that its ability to move in the world is somewhat restricted by raising it without any official or legal ties to institutions, not even the two options, such as public libraries, yet it appears to have been largely satisfied before her father disappeared.

The 1933 chapters, at the same time, feel frightening contemporary. Anton is worried, for example, about the new production of “Hundert Tage”-Participated in his writing Benito Mosulini-playing in Vienna: “[It] My fears increased that unstable political tensions of Austria will turn into a civil war. Only last month, the counselor Dollfuss had dissolved parliament in the country, and although he confirmed that the legislative body “eliminated itself,” many, including me, felt that he had quietly cleaned “a coup.” Readers know what will happen, of course – that annexing Austria to Nazi Germany is only a few years in the future of Anton – and evidence is everywhere, from the Jews and leftists who attacked the streets to the growing soft control of the university for what it considers ideas and radical voices.

“Micro -review expert” is not a political book itself, nor is it ethical. Menger-Anderson publicly does not link Vienna in 1933 with the first and second Trump departments in the future future. Instead, the conspiracy follows Hase in the disappearance of her father and the face of Anton and Zedlacher in the end with Time Traveler Haskell. But as Hase knows itself from the liberation of Wikipedia, not history or neutral language, Menger-Anderson explains wonderfully how the writer does not need to stay away from political tensions in a historical period but can use it to increase its situation, personality and conspiracy.

Masad, who is books and cultural critic, is the author of the novel “All My Lovers” and the upcoming novel “Objects”.