Short Stories : Collected Works of A.M. Klein / A.M. Klein, M.W. Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, A. M. (Abraham Moses), 1909-1972.

Contributor:

Klein, A.M., editor.

Steinberg, M.W., editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Canadian.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A.M. Klein's reputation as a writer on his poetry and to a lesser extent on his remarkable poetic novel The Second Scroll. But he also wrote many short stories over a period of more than a quarter of a century. Until now few people have been aware of their existence; many exist only in manuscript form, and most of those that were published appeared in magazines that were not readily accessible to the general reading public. This volume bring them together. Klein's range of themes and styles in his short fiction, as in his poetry and in his journalistic writing, is broad. He draws on his Jewish experience, focusing on legends, festivals, and ceremonies, well-known character types, and familiar aspects of Jewish life - in the synagogue, in the home, and on the streets. Klein was not limited, however, by his Jewish concerns, for he also wrote social and political satire and parodies of the detective story and of literary debates. His pervasive sense of humour is often closely associated with his feeling for the macabre, producing a quality of black comedy that is distinctly Kleinian. The stories in this volume are an invaluable addition to the canon of Klein's works and their publication will extend and reinforce his already considerable reputation.

Contents:

Epistle theological

Prophet in our midst : a story for Passover

By the profit of a beard

The lost twins

The triumph of Zalman Tiktiner

The parliament of Fowles : a short story

The Chanukah dreidel

The meed of the minnesinger : a vivid short story based on the life of a great thirteenth-century poet

Master of the horn

The parrot and the goat

The bald-headed monarch

Too many princes

Once upon a time ...

Shmelka

The seventh scroll

Blood and iron : a satire on modern German ideology

Friends, Romans, hungrymen

Beggars I have known

A myriad-minded man

Whom God hath joined

Yclept a pip

No traveller returns ...

Portrait of an executioner

The tale of the marvellous parrot

Memoirs of a campaigner

Detective story, or a likely story

We who are about to be born : a parable

One more Utopia

The trail of 'Clupea Harengus' : the scientific detective story and how she is writ for summer reading

Kapusitchka

... And it shall come to pass

And the mome raths outgrabe

Letter from afar

A fable

The bells of Sobor Spasitula.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781487590956

1487590954

9781487589332

1487589336

OCLC:

1091656881