Autocorrect, Etgar Keret
Autocorrect, Etgar Keret
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Autocorrect
Stories

Author: Etgar Keret, Jessica Cohen, Sondra Silverston

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen, Matt Godfrey, Gilli Messer, Max Meyers, Sacha Chambers, Jennifer Rubins

Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/27/2025

Synopsis

From one of the preeminent literary voices in Israel comes a darkly funny collection of surrealist stories exploring the increasingly complex relationship between humans and technology.

Set in our world, alternate realities, distant futures, and the immortal realm, the stories in Autocorrect traverse the wide range of human experience. With wit and creativity, Keret blends the absurd and the profound, juxtaposing life's smallest details with weighty existential questions. A man names an asteroid after his wife only to find that it's on a collision course with Earth in "For the Woman Who Has Everything." In "Squirrels," a widower's husband reincarnates as a rodent, and "Eating Olives at the End of the World" considers proper social etiquette in the face of destruction.

Keret's collection speaks to the uncertainty and fragility of our time, expertly capturing its misunderstandings and miscommunications. His stories probe society's uncomfortable truths, searching for meaning in our ever-changing world.

About The Author

Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been pub­lished in over four dozen lan­guages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, and The New Yorker, among others. His awards include the Cannes Film Festival’s Caméra d’Or (2007), the Charles Bronfman Prize (2016), and the pres­tigious Sapir Prize (2018). Over a hundred short films and several feature films have been based on his stories. Keret teaches creative writing at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Since 2021, he has been publishing the weekly newsletter Alphabet Soup on Substack.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on May 27, 2025

4.5. So rarely does a story collection captivate me from start to finish, but this one did. Each story grabbed me with its zany premise, at times they’re exploring a dystopian world, at others a parallel one, and others are rooted firmly in reality but still contain an element of absurdity. The stor......more

Goodreads review by Glen on April 03, 2025

I can't help but wonder about the psyche of a short story writer. Etgar Keret embraces the form, it is attached to his identity. Is it a short attention span thing? His books read quickly, quick bites, like snacks from the convenience store. Are we meant to savor them or inhale? (I admit to falling......more

Goodreads review by Sheldon on May 30, 2025

First of his I've given lower than five stars. Not sure...Some of them lacked the umph I've always gotten as a reader. Makes me sad. I've loved his stories for awhile now.......more

Goodreads review by Lee Ellen on April 28, 2025

Edgar Keret has a talent for cutting to the quick of the human experience - sometimes poignant, sometimes absurd, often both. His stories are usually quite short, but it always impresses me how much spirit, anguish, love, and the ineffable hanging doom of mortality he squeezes into such a small word......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on April 05, 2025

A bright read of what often seems like flash fiction. The stores - some as a short as two pages, none longer than 12 - are a mixed bag, which is to be expected. The best are whimsical with a sharp edge. The worst are simply trite. The collection as a whole is engaging, almost fun, but there's a sens......more

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Praise for Autocorrect:

“Universal and timeless.” – The New York Times

“The stories in Keret’s new collection respond to personal and global events in a way that is both comic and deeply felt.” – The New Yorker

“Bright and crisp, straightforward, but underneath they teem with wildness and possibility…A shiny Keret conceit is always in the service of the real, of plumbing the depths to reveal something true about how we relate, about our loneliness, our conflicts, and our longing to connect." – Aimee Bender

“Endlessly inventive…short prose morsels—most only a few pages—that explode like tiny starbursts and embrace a speculative edge.” – Booklist

“The 33 pieces in this entertaining collection from Keret lay bare the absurdities, anxieties, and ironies of contemporary existence...Taken together, these vignettes form a vibrant tapestry of surprising depth.” – Publishers Weekly

“A bemusing clutch of comic vignettes alert to contemporary anxieties...in its strongest moments, what resonates most aren’t Keret’s high-concept predicaments, but the determination of characters to preserve their humanity despite them. Wry, affectionate, tart storytelling with Keret’s trademark comic kick.” – Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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