The Singer on the Shore: Essays 1991–2004 - Softcover
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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Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 and lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and is now Professor of English in the School of European Studies at the University of Sussex. Carcanet publish his novels and fictions Contre-Jour (1986), In the Fertile Land (1987), Steps (1990), The Big Glass (1991), In a Hotel Garden (1993), Moo Pak (1995) and Now (1998) and his essays Text and Voice (1993).
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'Josipovici is able to relate ordinary human concerns to some of the most important intellectual issues of the twentieth century. There are few writers in England of whom this could be said.' - Times Literary Supplement.
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1857548442
- ISBN 13 9781857548440
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