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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Hoffmann, Yoel ; Kriss, David ; Levenston, Edward A
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| Publisher: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation
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| Date: |
05/17/1999
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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