Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian - Softcover

Beichman, Arnold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765808366 ISBN 13: 9780765808363

Verlag: Routledge, 2004

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-A straightforward, admirably concise reevaluation of an American novelist whose popularity has long obscured his significance.- --Terry Teachout, drama critic, The Wall Street Journal -How fine to have Arnold Beichman's guide to the funniest and most readable and most moving of contemporary authors!- --William F. Buckley, Jr., National Review -One national treasure offers a peerless study of another national treasure in Arnold Beichman's Herman Wouk: The Novelist As Social Historian. Beichman brings titanic understanding of the 20th century, world literature, philosophy and religion to his appropriately judicious and appropriately admiring appraisal of Wouk's life work.- --John Podhoretz -Beichman knows Wouk - and thanks to Beichman, so now do we all. A fascinating and eye-opening study.- --David Frum, American Enterprise Institute -Arnold Beichman has written a sympathetic and illuminating account of Wouk's writing that helps us understand why it was so popular and why its importance is at least as great as its popularity. It makes you want to read the books all over again.- --Professor Donald Kagan, Yale University "A straightforward, admirably concise reevaluation of an American novelist whose popularity has long obscured his significance." --Terry Teachout, drama critic, The Wall Street Journal "How fine to have Arnold Beichman's guide to the funniest and most readable and most moving of contemporary authors!" --William F. Buckley, Jr., National Review "One national treasure offers a peerless study of another national treasure in Arnold Beichman's Herman Wouk: The Novelist As Social Historian. Beichman brings titanic understanding of the 20th century, world literature, philosophy and religion to his appropriately judicious and appropriately admiring appraisal of Wouk's life work." --John Podhoretz "Beichman knows Wouk - and thanks to Beichman, so now do we all. A fascinating and eye-opening study." --David Frum, American Enterprise Institute "Arnold Beichman has written a sympathetic and illuminating account of Wouk's writing that helps us understand why it was so popular and why its importance is at least as great as its popularity. It makes you want to read the books all over again." --Professor Donald Kagan, Yale University "A straightforward, admirably concise reevaluation of an American novelist whose popularity has long obscured his significance." --Terry Teachout, drama critic, The Wall Street Journal "How fine to have Arnold Beichman's guide to the funniest and most readable and most moving of contemporary authors!" --William F. Buckley, Jr., National Review "One national treasure offers a peerless study of another national treasure in Arnold Beichman's Herman Wouk: The Novelist As Social Historian. Beichman brings titanic understanding of the 20th century, world literature, philosophy and religion to his appropriately judicious and appropriately admiring appraisal of Wouk's life work." --John Podhoretz "Beichman knows Wouk - and thanks to Beichman, so now do we all. A fascinating and eye-opening study." --David Frum, American Enterprise Institute "Arnold Beichman has written a sympathetic and illuminating account of Wouk's writing that helps us understand why it was so popular and why its importance is at least as great as its popularity. It makes you want to read the books all over again." --Professor Donald Kagan, Yale University

Reseña del editor:

Arnold Beichman's comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk, one of America's leading writers, shows how Wouk's plays and novels exemplify an extraordinary and often highly perceptive preoccupation with American society in war and in peace. Situating Wouk in the same literary tradition as Cervantes, Richardson, Balzac, and Dickens, Beichman demonstrates that Wouk's novels have strong plots, moralist outcomes, and active-essentially positive-characters. The new introduction serves to bring Wouk's work over the past two decades into the reckoning. Making extensive use of Wouk's personal papers and manuscripts as well as personal interviews with him, Beichman's focus is on the social and literary qualities of Wouk's work. In particular, he examines eight of Wouk's twelve novels, one of his three plays; and two moral tracts on Judaism.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0765808366
• ISBN 13: 9780765808363
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152