Ideally, it would include more than one of these elements:
– Midcentury setting
– Atmospheric Midwest setting
– Depictions of American Jewish life
– Darkly funny events or plot
– Allegories for/allusion to Old Testament stories
– Magical realism
– Existential bleakness
– Dark academia
Thanks!
by sovietsatan666
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Nabokov’s Pnin comes to mind.