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Some blame a shaky translation from the original Polish; others say the author's use of so many varying literary devices and styles squelches the heart of the novel: "Only a spark of life survives its mannerisms" (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). (Read the first chapter here.)
He despairs of his father the failed lawyer, the gunner who can't hit a bird that doesn't bother with flight, the pajama-clad alcoholic who squelches his cigarettes in his own excrement.
In "The Conintern," Jacob Weisberg implies there is a rigid conservative orthodoxy that squelches dissent in "movement" publications under punishment of expulsion.