Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A Neglected Masterpiece

This novella is a neglected masterpiece of 20th century literature. As a study of modern anxiety & alienation, it belongs on a shelf with Sartre's "Nausea" and Camus' "The Stranger." The form is completely original: the narrative of a 73 year-old man's mental and physical collapse is told in fragments of memory and thought, some only a few words long. Taken together, these fragments, completely controlled and deadpan, approach the beauty of prose poetry. One or two of the fragments have the harrowing power of Kafka's aphorisms--than which there is no higher praise. Shame on HBJ for letting this jewel of modern European literature go out of print. And kudos to Dalkey Archive Press for rescuing it.