Postcards from Alphaville

Cinema is oneof the recurring themes in Rapheal Rubinstein's first collection of prose. Legendary French director Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Eustache are the subjects of diaristic sequences; another storoy delves into the suspicious career of an elusive leftist film makes, A a Cameo ponders why a wealthy Itallian terrorist once posed for a photo with Alfred Hitchcock. Touching down in New York, Milan, Mexico City and the Balearic Islands, these lucid narratives explore private and public realms. The book culminates with a montagelike inventory of diverse objects, seemingly chosen at random, through which the author examines hisown life and family history.