The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's Privy Portrait has fallen on
hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has
no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into
a horribly tiny apartment with his only possession: a
twenty-five-volume encyclopedia. His neighbors, the Shritzkys, are
vulgar, narrow-minded, and racist. And because he has no space for
his encyclopedia in his cramped room, he stores it in the communal
bathroom, and this becomes a major point of contention with his
neighbors. The bathroom is also the only place he can find refuge
from the Shritzkys' blaring television, and he barricades himself
in it to read his encyclopedia, much to the chagrin of the rest of
the residents of the building. Darkly amusing, Privy Portrait is
the monologue of a man, disoriented by the gaping void of not
knowing his own nationality, recounting the final remnants of his
own sanity and his life. In this buffoonish, even grotesque, yet
deeply pitiful man, Benoziglio explores, with a light yet profound
touch, weighty themes such as the roles of family, history, one's
moral responsibility towards others, and the fragility of personal
identity.
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