'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off
universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry
in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings
gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a quarter of
a century's worth of critical reflection on modern art and
literature, Biblical culture, Jewish theology, European identity,
the nature of beginnings, and the bittersweetness of writing
fiction - to name but a few of the subjects upon which Josipovici's
ranging, pansophic attention rests. The author describes paths
between these distant regions of space and time with characteristic
warmth and ingenuity. Proust, Kafka, Woolf, Pasternak, Eliot,
Spark, Valery, and Beckett dwell here alongside Dante, Shakespeare,
Sterne, Cervantes, and the Brothers Grimm. Each of these great
writers is a point of departure for personal reflection, and a
series of critical essays takes on a second life as a book of
intimate recollections and fond remembrances, recalling departed
friends and peers, evoking the pain and ecstasy of childhood, the
personal struggle to be a writer, and the life-long project of
becoming a person.Here is a snapshot of influences on one of the
English language's most distinctive voices, and an opinionated,
sensual, and informed exposition on Western literature and culture.
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