What the Raven Said: Genealogy and Subjectivity in Mordecai Richler’s Solomon Gursky Was Here

The essay is concerned with the way Richler’s novel imagines the symbolic and textual space of genealogy as the narrative and figurative site where subjectivity is both defined and subverted: the linear, generational narrative logic of the family tree is undercut by a repetitive logic, resulting in an ambiguous anecdotal organization.