The din in the head : essays

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The din in the head : essays

Cynthia Ozick

Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006

  • pbk.

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Contents of Works

  • On discord and desire
  • What Helen Keller saw
  • Young Tolstoy : an apostle of desire
  • John Updike : Eros and god
  • Throwing away the clef : Saul Bellow's Ravelstein
  • Washington Square : so many absent things
  • Smoke and fire : Sylvia Plath's journals
  • Kipling : a postcolonial footnote
  • Delmore Schwartz : the willed abortion of the self
  • Lionel Trilling and the buried life
  • Tradition and (or versus) the Jewish writer
  • Henry James, Tolstoy, and my first novel
  • Highbrow blues
  • The din in the head
  • The rule of the bus
  • Isaac Babel : "Let me finish"
  • In research of lost time
  • The heretical passions of Gershom Scholem
  • And god saw literature, that it was good : Robert Alter's version-
  • An (unfortunate) interview with Henry James

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