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The Shawl
Cynthia Ozick
Vintage, 1990
A disturbing and moving work
This short work telling of the death of a child in the Shoah, and the subsequent life- destroying effect on the mother of the child is a disturbing and moving one. The symbolic 'shawl' connects the two parts of the work. It had helped keep baby Magda alive in a ...
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Dictation: A Quartet
Cynthia Ozick
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Thank you, Ms. Ozick, for another stunning book
It's incredible! Every time a new book of Ozick's is published, I give thanks to the Muses for having provided her the necessary inspiration. As usual, her sentences are gorgeous and lyrical; the characters are funny and utterly compelling.
"Dictation" is the only ...
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Metaphor & Memory
Cynthia Ozick
Vintage, 1991
A magisterial essayist.
Avoid Cynthia Ozick if you would rather be hip than learned. If you wish to read a remarkable analysis of how we (they) came to revere the hip over the learned, turn to "The Question of Our Speech: The Return to Aural Culture," the collection's best essay. Ozick is a ...
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The Puttermesser Papers: A Novel
Cynthia Ozick
Vintage, 1998
interesting...
This book came as a pleasant surprise! I had heard about the author (Cynthia Osick) and became curious. The book is very unusual and reports different episodes in the life a lawyer in New York, which are quite imaginative and fantastic. It is amusing as the main ...
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel
W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
HAS TO BE READ BY EVERYONE !!!!!!!!!
There is little more I can say about this astonishing piece of work that has not already been said, but I will add my piece in the hope that it will encourage more people to read what is a genuinely important piece of writing.
Buy this book to appreciate Babel's ...
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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
Essential
Babel's output was relatively small. His reputation rests on his short stories, particularly the stories about his hometown of Odessa and the remarkable Red Cavalry sequence describing the Soviet invasion of Poland. This work is, nonetheless, a high point of 20th ...
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Heir to the Glimmering World : A Novel
Cynthia Ozick, 2004
For serious readers...
This book is a gem. Ms. Ozick meanders through the landscape of the displaced and dispossessed with an unflinching eye.
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The Best American Essays 1998 (Best American)
Houghton Mifflin, 1998
A collection of brilliance -- the best art form
Being of a younger generation, my acquaintances are generally surprised to find me reading a collection of essays. This provides me with a golden opportunity to share the wealth I have found in this book. Not only have the essayists here provoked thought and ...
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Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
Saul Bellow
Penguin Classics, 2003
'Time is envious and is running away from us. Seize the day.'
Saul Bellow (1915--2005) published Seize the Day in 1956. It was his fourth novel. In 128 pages, the novel tells the day-in-the-life story of a failed actor in his forties, Wilhelm Adler (Tommy Wilhelm). He is unemployed, estranged from his wife (who refuses a ...
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The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
Cynthia Ozick
Syracuse University Press, 1995
The Spiritual vs. The Mundane
These are stories that Ozick published in the late 1960's and 1971. Despite the early date of composition, one can clearly see her brilliance in her writing style. Her ability to string words together in a line, on a page, makes her one of the finest articulationists ...
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Art and Ardor
Cynthia Ozick
Plume, 1984
Henry James would approve.
When Cynthia Ozick wrote of critic James Wood that "he thinks with a sublime ferocity...[and his writing is characterized by] an intellectual daring that portends literary permanence," she might have been describing herself. A belletrist always, a polemicist when ...
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Screeno: Stories & Poems
Delmore Schwartz
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004
Heavy bears and dreams
Sometimes with the legend, we forget how great the work is. This brings together many of Schwartz's brightest works. The introduction by Cynthia Ozick, reminds that Delmore worked under Alfred North Whitehead, and Whitehead's "Witness of the body" shows up in ...
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The Lost Childhood: The Complete Memoir
Yehuda Nir
Schaffner Press, Inc., 2007
This compelling memoir takes readers through the eyes of a child surviving World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a nine-year-old, the author witnessed his father being herded into a truck?never to be seen again. He, his mother, and sister fled to Warsaw to live in disguise as Catholics under the noses of the Nazi SS, constantly fearful of ...
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The Messiah of Stockholm
Cynthia Ozick
Vintage, 1988
Beautiful writing
Ozick's sentences are so wonderfully crafted that I feel like I am in the Louvre of writing when I read her. This is just the second book by her that I have read and I am just delighted. It is true, as one reviewer stated, that she maintains a certain distance from ...
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A Cynthia Ozick Reader
Cynthia Ozick
Indiana University Press, 1996
An excellent selection
This is an excellent selection of Ozick's work . It includes what in my judgment is the finest piece of fiction that she has written the novella ,'Envy'. It also a number of her outstanding literary and historical reflections including some which touch upon her wise ...
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