Yoel Hoffmann

Katschen: & the Book of Joseph

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Katschen & The Book of Joseph makes an amazing American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. Intensely moving, the two novellas display the entirely original poetry and hypnotic verve of Hoffmann's atomized language, which Rosmarie Waldrop has called utterly enchanting--it is like nothing else. 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 Palestine. When Yoel Hoffmann's books first appeared in the late 1980s, Professor Nili Gold has commented, they seemed to have tunneled their way into Israel from afar....Technically… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kriss, David / Levenston, Edward A.

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1373-8
EAN: 9780811213738
Produktnummer: 9284604
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Seitenangabe: 162 S.
Masse: H21.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.0 cm 322 g
Gewicht: 322

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.