The inveterate dreamer : essays and conversations on Jewish culture
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The inveterate dreamer : essays and conversations on Jewish culture
（Texts and contexts）（A bison book）
University of Nebraska Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-284) and index
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Description
Not only do "modern" Jewish languages like Yiddish and Hebrew have their own Jewish writers, but every major Western tongue-from German and Russian to English and Portuguese-does as well. These writers are often at the crossroad between the two traditions: their Jewish one and their own national one. Is there such a thing as a modern Jewish literary tradition, one navigating across linguistic and national lines? If so, how should one define it? Ilan Stavans is uniquely qualified to answer these questions and to comment on the power and challenges of cultural margins and literary crossings. He has been at the forefront of an appreciation of the Jewish literary tradition that is less asphyxiating, more global. His reflections on Jewish Latin America have won him the nickname "pathfinder." This incomparable volume showcases Stavans's most insightful and provocative-and at times controversial-observations on transnational Jewish culture and literature. Stavans explores the problems and prospects of representing Jewish experiences through such media as Holocaust memoirs and Jewish museums; astutely comments on well-known intellectual figures, including Lionel Trilling, Isaac Babel, Primo Levi, Harold Bloom, and Walter Benjamin; engages in memorable conversations with Norman Manea, Joseph Brodsky, and Ariel Dorfman; and offers compelling glimpses of revelatory moments in his own life.
Table of Contents
Contents: Preface Part 1. Language and Tradition Language and Tradition Part 2. Essays George Steiner's Errata Man of Ashes: Novelizing the Holocaust? Arthur A. Cohen: Reader Mestizo A. B. Yehoshua Stones and Ideas: David Hare's Via Dolorosa Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish Gauchos Nathan Englander Danilo Ki' in Buenos Aires Harold Bloom: A Microprofile On Moacyr Scliar Elias Canetti: Sephardic Master Hotel Bolivia On Lionel Trilling Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist Isaac Babel: Tales of Ambivalence Marcos Aguinis: The Inveterate Dreamer Peter Nadas: The End of a Family Story Kafka's Last Letter: A Heaven without Crows Arthur Schnitzler and Stanley Kubrick Borges's Jewish "Yo" The Verbal Quest Museum Fever David Roskies's Shtetl The Name Walter Benjamin: The Demon of Inspiration Isaac Goldemberg's Mixed Blood Part 3. Conversations Norman Manea Joseph Brodsky Ariel Dorfman Part 4. In the First Person Hanukkah: A Brief Reminiscence September 19, 1985 A Matter of Choice: Response to a Questionnaire Lost in Translation: An Autobiographical Essay Part 5. Memory and Literature Memory and Literature Sources Index
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