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Yoel Hoffmann Katschen & The Book of Joseph (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Katschen and the Book of Joseph
- Publication Name
- Katschen & The Book of Joseph
- Title
- Katschen & The Book of Joseph
- Translator
- Edward A. Levenston
- Contributor
- Edward A. Levenston (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0811214052
- EAN
- 9780811214056
- ISBN
- 9780811214056
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Genre
- Literary Collections, Fiction
- Topic
- Middle Eastern, General, Literary, Jewish
- Release Date
- 01/09/1999
- Release Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 6.7 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Features
- Reprint
- Number of Pages
- 162 Pages
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In kaleidoscopic fragments, Hoffmann refracts Jewish popular lore and folk wisdom through a postmodernist prism, brightening his prose with snatches of verse, songs, diary excerpts, letters, ominous dreams, lush erotic passages and Yiddish sayings. "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 the new state of Israel. The novellas radiate the original poetry of Hoffmann's atomized hypnotic language, which Rosmarie Waldrop has called "utterly enchanting--it's like nothing else."
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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811214052
ISBN-13
9780811214056
eBay Product ID (ePID)
300871
Product Key Features
Book Title
Katschen and the Book of Joseph
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Middle Eastern, General, Literary, Jewish
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
162 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
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Edition Description
Reprint
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Randall has done a lot of good reporting, writes clearly and makes even the scientific aspects of his subject easily accessible... The result is an enjoyable, edifying book that goes down easy... The one thing Dreamland will not do--sorry, insomniacs--is put you to sleep. The topic and the treatment are both too interesting., Yoel Hoffmann's prose has a poetic quality, full of imagery and symbolism.... Hoffmann skillfully views life through the eyes of a confused and innocent young boy who possesses a vivid imagination and never loses hope regardless of his misfortunes., These two novellas, Yoel Hoffman's English-language debut, deliver a cache of themes particular to post modern Israeli literature, all the while paying homage to Yiddish folklore and Jewish mysticism., Unadulterated, cerebral and exquisitely phrased (most remarkably in this English translation), Hoffmann's writing pretends to nothing but what it achieves: a meditative journey through the mind, heart and history, the scope of which is so gratifying, so stimulating, so difficult to describe., [N]ew beginnings awaken Hoffmann's characters to foreign, often spectacular landscapes, and the author's prose ... insures the reader an equally enlightening experience., The most diverting and consistently fascinating book on the topic ever... but you couldn't find a more charming guide to what we do know than Dreamland., Like other Israeli novelists of his era, Hoffmann faces the challenge of voicing the unspeakable. He has a Mozartean sense of the emotional interplay of light and shadow, and in his close stitchery of everyday life and mythical experience, his many-colored Joseph's dreamcoat is seamless., Reading Hoffmann's subtle prose is like viewing the same universe, alternately and with the most skillful modulations, through a telescope and a microscope, only to find out, in awe, that the astral view and the infinitesimal view are actually one and the same.
Copyright Date
1999
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Trade
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97-050300
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