Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
The teller & the tale : essays on literature & culture, 1990-2015 / Gabriel Josipovici.
Author
Josipovici, Gabriel, 1940-
[Browse]
Uniform title
Essays.
Selections
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Manchester : Carcanet, 2016.
©2016
Description
318 pages ; 22 cm
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
PR6060.O64 A6 2016
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Literature
—
History and criticism
[Browse]
Authorship
[Browse]
Library of Congress genre(s)
Essays
[Browse]
Getty AAT genre
essays
[Browse]
Summary note
"We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes," writes Gabriel Jospiovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a quarter of a century's worth of critical reflection on modern art and literature, Biblical culture, Jewish theology, European idenitty, the nature of beiginnings, and the bittersweetness of writing ficition - to name but a few of the subjects upon which Josipovici's ranging, pansophic attention rests. The author describes paths between these distant regions of space and time with characteristic warmth and ingenuity. Proust, Kafka, Woolf, Pasternak, Eliot, Spark, Valéry and Beckett dwell here alongside Dante, Shakespeare, Sterne, Cervantes, and the Brothers Grimm. Each of these great writers is a point of departure for personal reflection, and a series of critical essays takes on a second life as a book of intimate recollections and fond remembrances, recalling departed friends and peers, evoking the pain and ectasy of childhood, the personal struggle to be a writer, and the life-long project of becoming a person. here is a snapshot of influences on one of the English language's most distinctive voices, and an opinionated, sensual, and informed exposition on Western literature and culture.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface
Proust and I
Tristram Shandy: Not Waving Bur Drowning
Empty Rooms
A Napoleon of Thought: Paul Valéry and his Notebooks
Reading Kafka Today
The Stories of the Germans
The Legends of the Jews
Two Resurrections
Medieval Matters
The Talltih and the Dishcloth
The Hebrew Poetry of Medieval Spain
Sacred Trash
Claudel and the Bible
'Like a Bad Russian Novel': Eliot in His Letters
Boris Pasternak
György Kurtág. Samuel Beckett What is the Word
'The Itch to Write': Beckett's Early Letters
Why Write Fiction?
Muriel Spark and the Practice of Deception
Saying Kaddish
Kafka and the Holy Rabbi of Belz
The Lost
Cousins
Against the 'Idea of Europe'
Interruption and the Last Part
How to Make a Square Move
When I Begin I Have Already Begun
The Ouse's Muddy Bank
Show 26 more Contents items
Other title(s)
Teller and the tale
ISBN
9781784102128 ((pbk.))
1784102121 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2017415417
OCLC
964357343
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information
Other versions
The Teller & the tale : essays on literature & culture, 1990-2015 / Gabriel Josipovici.
id
SCSB-11151169