Metaphor and Memory - Hardcover

Ozick, Cynthia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394566254 ISBN 13: 9780394566252

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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hor of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0394566254
• ISBN 13: 9780394566252
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
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