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Synopsis
In her new collection of essays, Ozick examines some of the world's most illustrious writers and their works, including Dostoevsky, William Styron, Henry James, and others.
About the Author
Cynthia Ozick's essays, novels, and short stories have won numerous prizes and awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Strauss Living Award, four O. Henry First Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her books have also been shortlisted for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She and her husband live in Westchester County, New York.
Table of Contents
Forethoughts --Dostoyevsky's unabomber --The posthumous sublime --The impossibility of being Kafka --The impious impatience of Job --Who owns Anne Frank? --The rights of history and the rights of imagination --Public intellectuals --The selfishness of art --Cinematic James --A prophet of modernism --Imaginary people --The ladle --What is poetry about? --A Swedish novel --She : portrait of the essay as a warm body --A drug store Eden --Lovesickness --How I got fired from my summer job --The synthetic sublime.