Perfection
Latronico’s conceit is clever and will delight anyone familiar with his source material, but his execution is ingenious ... His novel’s agility in English owes much to its talented translator, Sophie Hughes ... His novel is greater than the sum of its cunning substitution of signifiers.
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Latronico is biting and withering, a funny critic of certain habits of mind and social conventions, which works especially well for the Berlin expat set ... What’s notable about Latronico’s experiment is that by borrowing Perec’s mode of caricature — exporting it into the present — he shows something universal about generations and their anxieties.
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Trenchant ... The strength of Perfection is that it never succumbs to the temptation of ridiculing its protagonists ... Remains an insider’s critique: a young, left-wing European’s view of what was probably the high-water mark of European cultural integration.
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