Facing the Fires / Edition 1

Facing the Fires / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0815604939
ISBN-13:
9780815604938
Pub. Date:
09/01/1997
Publisher:
Syracuse University Press
ISBN-10:
0815604939
ISBN-13:
9780815604938
Pub. Date:
09/01/1997
Publisher:
Syracuse University Press
Facing the Fires / Edition 1

Facing the Fires / Edition 1

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Overview

In Facing the Fires, Bernard Horn introduces A. B. Yehoshua, Israel's greatest living novelist, to an English-speaking audience. Yehoshua is also his country's most audacious thinker about politics, culture, history, and Jewish identity.

Yehoshua's achievement has been recognized throughout the world, and he has been awarded literary prizes in both Israel and the United States. A lively, controversial, and prophetic voice in his homeland, Yehoshua rigorously tests his community's deepest pieties: religion, Zionism, and the agony of the Holocaust. A Jew who does not believe in God, he is a committed Zionist and member of the "peace camp" in Israel that welcomed the Palestinian uprising of 1987.

In the tradition of the Paris Review interviews, Horn's conversations with Yehoshua reveal the intricate play of literary, psychological, mythological, and political motifs in the novelist's work. Stimulated by a warm friendship between the two scholars, the intellectual energy of Facing the Fires offers readers a pleasure they might expect only from fiction.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780815604938
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 09/01/1997
Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art Ser.
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 198
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Bernard Horn is professor of English at Framingham State College in Massachusetts. He has published poems, as well as articles, on Herman Melville, Norman Mailer, David Mamet, and the biblical book of Numbers.

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