The teller & the tale : essays on literature & culture, 1990-2015 / Gabriel Josipovici.

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Josipovici, Gabriel, 1940- [Browse]
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English
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  • Manchester : Carcanet, 2016.
  • ©2016
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318 pages ; 22 cm

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    "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.
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    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
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    Teller and the tale
    ISBN
    • 9781784102128 ((pbk.))
    • 1784102121 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2017415417
    OCLC
    964357343
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