There are two ways for a novel today to assert itself against competition from other media: either it wants to be poetic or it focuses on the relevance of a social issue. A book differs from a film or series in that it can play with the written word or take us into the inner experience of someone affected. Jellyfish Have No Ears is a novel that attempts both. The debut of author Adèle Rosenfeld, born in 1986, translated from French by Nicola Denis, is a novel about deafness – and what deafness does to language and to the psyche.
Adéle Rosenfeld’s novel “Jellyfish Have No Ears” – Culture
