Moods (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Hoffmann, Yoel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811223825 ISBN 13: 9780811223829

Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015

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Críticas

Spectacular.

Hoffmann is not just a good writer but a great one, with the ability to find, in the moment-to-moment dislocation of daily existence, epiphanies of revelatory force. What Hoffmann has achieved is a kind of magic.--David Ulin

Hoffmann writes in a language of miracles.

Hoffmann's subject is the miracle of this most ordinary thing, and his prose is its revelation and praise.--Jenny Hendrix

Hoffmann's meandering is intensely personal, yet his hope that the cataloguing of thoughts and feelings will lead to some kind of larger understanding beyond the self is entirely universal.

Reseña del editor

Part novel and part memoir, Yoel Hoffmann’s Moods is flooded with feelings, evoked by his family, losses, loves, the soul’s hidden powers, old phone books, and life in the Galilee—with its every scent, breeze, notable dog, and odd neighbor. Carrying these shards is a general tenderness, accentuated by a new dimension brought along by “that great big pill of Prozac.” Beautifully translated by Peter Cole, Moods is fiction for lovers of poetry and poetry for lovers of fiction—a small marvel of a book, and with its pockets of joy, a curiously cheerful book by an author who once compared himself to “a praying mantis inclined to melancholy.”

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0811223825
• ISBN 13: 9780811223829
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160