Mordecai Richler : leaving St. Urbain / Reinhold Kramer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramer, Reinhold, 1959-

Series:

Arts insights.

Arts insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001.

Richler, Mordecai.

Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001--Criticism and interpretation.

Novelists, Canadian--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, Canadian.

Jewish authors--Canada--Biography.

Jewish authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (525 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on never-before published material from the Richler archives as well as interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain shows how Richler consistently mined his remarkable life for material for his novels. Beginning with the early clashes with his grandfather over Orthodox Judaism, and exposing the reasons behind his life-long quarrel with his mother, Kramer follows Richler as he flees to Ibiza and Paris, where he counted himself as one of the avant-garde who ushered in the 1960s. His successes abroad gave him the opportunity to remain in England and leave novel-writing behind — but he did neither. More than a biography, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain is the story of a Jewish culture finding its place within a larger stream, a literary culture moving into the colloquial, and a Canada torn between nationalism and cosmopolitanism.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Tiefste Provinz, 1931–1950

Geyt, yidelech, in der vayter velt

A Light Has Gone Out in Israel

À bas les Juifs

Shabbes Goy

A Losers’ Finishing School

Yurop, 1950–1972

Bohemia among the Fishermen: Ibiza

Mr. Gauche of the Rive-gauche: Paris

What Do You Know about the Circus?

Cathy, Commerce, and Señor Hoore: London

Friends and Enemies

Florence Mann, the Golden Shiska

The End of the Apprenticeship

Certified Libel-Free

Idols of the Tribe

Cocksure; Spent Worm

Mortimer Square and the Counterculture

Horseman

Home Again, 1972–2001

Return to Avonlea

Hollywood North

Kiddie Author

Back to Ibiza

Lily, Round 3

Last of the Free-Market Scribblers

The Bronfmans Are Gathering

Tongue Trooper

VIP’s Israel

The Bourgeois Trickster

Absolut Barney

A Few Parting Shots

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-483) and index.

ISBN:

9786612864674

9780773577954

0773577955

9781282864672

128286467X

9780773574779

0773574778

OCLC:

647844355