Babel Guide to Jewish Fiction - Babel Guide (Paperback)

Previous Babel Guides have focused on fiction in translation, grouped by geography or language - French, German, Latin American. This volume introduces English-language originals as well as translations from Yiddish, Hebrew and various European languages. There is probably no need to draw readers' attention to the work of Saul Bellow, Marcel Proust or Franz Kafka, but next to that of Jurek Becker (about Polish ghetto life), Giorgio Pressburger (prewar Budapest) and Yoram Kaniuk (Arab-Jewish relations) it becomes part of a different whole. The format balances nicely between encyclopedia and anthology. In each entry, a sample paragraph or two of writing is preceded by about a page of introduction to the author and the quoted work. In some cases more than one contributor has a shot at the same author. The excerpts are well chosen and will send you for more to the detailed and extensive bibliography of Jewish fiction available in English. The book also contains a glossary. (Kirkus UK)

Part of the Babel series, this guide offers 150 original reviews of books available in English by leading Jewish writers. The book includes accessible, informative material on the European Jewish writers - Proust, Kafka, Primo Levi; the Yiddish author Shalom Aleichem; Londoner Israel Zangwill; American Jewish writers like Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth; as well as the Brazilian Clarice Lispector, the Canadian Mordecai Richler, Israelis Amos Oz and nobel-winner S.Y. Agnon and 60 other international authors. Featuring new and old Jewish classics, the text includes an author database and a listing of fiction translated from Yiddish and Hebrew into English

General

Imprint:	Boulevard Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1998
Editors:	Ray Keenoy • Saskia Brown
Dimensions:	130 x 200 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	285
ISBN-13:	978-1-899460-25-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN:	1-899460-25-X
Barcode:	9781899460250

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