| #1209628 in Books | Vintage | 1991-09-03 | 1991-09-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.20 x.50 x5.20l,.70 | File type: PDF | 300 pages | ||0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Pompous windbag writes well|By Damiana Andonova|Useful for the last essay in particular; clearly well read author who enjoys the loud orchestra of her mind. found the archipelago of the imagination to be a useful image|0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant Writer sometimes Writes Brilliantly|By Shannon HowreyFrom Publishers Weekly|In 30 impassioned essays, reviews and orations, Ozick ( Bloodshed ; The Pagan Rabbi ) interprets fiction as a moral battleground. She reads Primo Levi's restrained, lucid testament to Nazi atrocities as a sifting of the criminal imaginatio
From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literat...
You easily download any file type for your device.Metaphor & Memory | Cynthia Ozick. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
