Yoel Hoffmann

Katschen & The Book of Joseph

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In kaleidoscopic fragments, Hoffmann refracts Jewish popular lore and folk wisdom through a postmodernist prism, brightening his prose with snatches of verse, songs, diary excerpts, letters, ominous dreams, lush erotic passages and Yiddish sayings. The Book of Joseph tells the tragic story of a widowed Jewish tailor and his son in 1930s Berlin. Katschen gives an astounding child's-eye view of a boy orphaned in the new state of Israel. The novellas radiate the original poetry of Hoffmann's atomized hypnotic language, which Rosmarie Waldrop has called utterly enchanting-it's like nothing else.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kriss, David (Übers.) / Levenston, Edward A. (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1405-6
EAN: 9780811214056
Produktnummer: 9284603
Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 162 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.6 cm x D4.1 cm 194 g
Gewicht: 194
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Yoel Hoffmann was born in Brasow, Romania in 1937. He is presently a citizen of Israel, and is Professor of Eastern Philosophy at the U. of Haifa. He has had a lifelong scholarly engagement with Hebrew literature, Western philosophy, and Japanese Buddhism. His is the winner of the first Koret Jewish Book Award. His books include The Heart is Katmandu, Bernhardt, The Christ of Fish, and Katschen & The Book of Joseph.