The singer on the shore : essays, 1991-2004
(2006)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Carcanet Press Ltd., 2006
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781847779274 (electronic bk.) MWT11692110, 1847779271 (electronic bk.) 11692110
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Two central themes run through this new collection of authoritative and undogmatic essays: the Jewish experience and that of the work of art as a toy to be used for dreaming and playing rather than as a window to the world. The collection includes three essays on the Bible, as well as pieces devoted to Twelfth Night, Rembrandt's self-portraits, Tristram Shandy, Kafka's stories and aphorisms, Borges, Kierkegaard, and painter Andrez Jackowski. The title essay examines the relationship of the artists' works and their ideas, and the book concludes with personal meditations on memory, the Holocaust, Jewishness, and being a writer-teacher
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