In the Days of Simon Stern - Hardcover

Cohen, Arthur A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436103001 ISBN 13: 9780436103001

Verlag: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1974

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Reseña del editor:

Nathan, a blind Jewish scribe, tells the story of the coming of the Messiah in the person of one Simon Stern-from his birth on the Lower East Side, through his career as a millionaire dealer in real estate, to his building of a refuge for the Jewish remnant of World War II". A majestic work of fiction that should stand world literature's test of time, to be read and reread. A masterpiece". -Commonweal "This book ensnares one of the most extraordinarily daring ideas to inhabit an American novel in a number of years. For one thing, it is that risky devising, dreamed of only by the Thomas Manns of the world, a serious and vastly conceived fiction bled out of the theological imagination. For another, it is clearly an 'American' novel-altogether American, despite its Jewish particularity: it is not so much about the history of the Jews as it is about the idea of the New World as haven. . . . In its teeming particularity every vein of this book runs with a brilliance of Jewish insight and erudition to be found in no other novelist. Arthur Cohen is the first writer of any American generation to compose a profoundly Jewish fiction on a profoundly Western theme". -Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review "This stately, ambitious amalgam of Jewish myth, history, theology, and speculations on the Jewish soul is like an enormous Judaic archeological ruin-often hard for the uninitiated to interpret, but impressive. . . . Intelligent, inventive, fascinating". -New Yorker

Biografía del autor:

Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986), novelist, essayist, and theologian, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 1973 for In the Days of Simon Stern and the National Jewish Book Award in 1984. His A People Apart was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972. Cohen's novels Acts of Theft and A Hero in His Time are also available in Phoenix Fiction paperback editions from the University of Chicago Press.

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• Verlag: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0436103001
• ISBN 13: 9780436103001
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464