Metaphor and Memory
Published on 5. October 2017
391 pages
978-1-78649-110-7 (ISBN)
Description
From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes this collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.
Reviews / Votes
If there is such a thing as a literary pantheon in America, then Cynthia Ozick is surely its Athena . . . Ozick casts sentences that fairly pulse with the electricity of a highly charged mind. * Washington Post * As an essayist, Cynthia Ozick is a very good storyteller. Her arguments are plots . . . They twist and turn, digress, slow down and speed up, surprise with sudden illuminations. * New York Times Book Review * Cynthia Ozick is double-barreled. She's an inventive and revelatory fiction writer and an exacting, battle-ready critic; an impish writer of conscience and a creative intellectual. * Los Angeles Times *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,45 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78649-110-7 (9781786491107)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Cynthia Ozick is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have won four O. Henry first prizes and, in 2012, her novel Foreign Bodies was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She was born in 1928 and currently lives in New York.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Forewarning
- Cyril Connolly and the Groans of Success
- William Gaddis and the Scion of Darkness
- Italo Calvino: Bringing Stories to Their Senses
- The Sister Melons of J. M. Coetzee
- Primo Levi's Suicide Note
- What Drives Saul Bellow
- Henry James's Unborn Child
- Emerging Dreiser
- George Steiner's Either/Or
- O Spilling Rapture! O Happy Stoup!
- A Short Note on "Chekhovian"
- Crocodiled Moats in the Kingdom of Letters
- Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character
- On Permission to Write
- The Seam of the Snail
- Pear Tree and Polar Bear: A Word on Life and Art
- Washington Square, 1946
- The Function of the Small Press
- Of Basilisks and Barometzes
- The Apprentice's Pillar
- The Muse, Postmodern and Homeless
- North
- The Shock of Teapots
- The Question of Our Speech: The Return to Aural Culture
- Sholem Aleichem's Revolution
- A Translator's Monologue
- S. Y. Agnon and the First Religion
- Bialik's Hint
- Ruth
- Metaphor and Memory
- Permissions Acknowledgments
