Failure's Opposite
Listening to A.M. Klein
1st Edition
Published on 20. May 2011
312 pages
978-0-7735-8664-2 (ISBN)
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A.M. Klein has remained an enduring but elusive presence in the Canadian literary consciousness since his death in 1972. Klein's legacy has been mixed, his literary achievement sometimes overshadowed by his reclusiveness and withdrawal from the literary world.
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Simon Sherry:
Sherry Simon, distinguished professor emerita at Concordia University, is the author and editor of several books including Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life.Norman Ravvin, chair of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, is a fiction and non-fiction writer and editor. His books include A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory. Sherry Simon is the author of numerous books, including Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City. She teaches in the French Studies Department at Concordia University in Montreal.
Sherry Simon, distinguished professor emerita at Concordia University, is the author and editor of several books including Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life.Norman Ravvin, chair of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, is a fiction and non-fiction writer and editor. His books include A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory. Sherry Simon is the author of numerous books, including Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City. She teaches in the French Studies Department at Concordia University in Montreal.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- PART ONE: TRACES
- From Ghetto to Diaspora: A.M. Klein in Our Time
- On Being Published in Heaven: The Case of Klein and Kerouac
- "Myself in Time ... and Space": The Letters of A.M. Klein
- A Writer for our Age: Notes on Voice in A.M. Klein's Poetry and Prose
- PART TWO: A TARGUM LEBEN: THE TRANSLATOR
- Ken men tantsn af tsvey khasenes? A.M. Klein and Yiddish
- Some Hebrew and Yiddish Vorlage in the Poetry of A.M. Klein
- Wolofsky ibergesetst, or How Does A.M. Klein Translate?
- PART THREE: MONTREAL AND BEYOND
- Reading A.M. Klein's "The Mountain" Alongside the Montreal Poems of J.I. Segal
- Montreal, Dublin, Prague, Jerusalem, and the Others: A.M. Klein's Cities
- Looking for A.M. Klein in Winnipeg's Anglo-Jewish Press
- PART FOUR: THE LITERARY OFFSPRING: RICHLER, COHEN, AND MICHAELS
- Richler, Son of Klein
- Uncle Melech and Cousin Joey: The Search for the Absent Hero in A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll and Mordecai Richler's St. Urbain's Horseman
- A.M. Klein: Mordecai Richler's Versions
- Converting Failure in Klein, Cohen, and Michaels
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
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- F
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