In a yellow wood : selected stories and essays / Cynthia Ozick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ozick, Cynthia, author.

Contributor:

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher.

Series:

Everyman's library ; 431.

Everyman's Library ; 431

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Jews--Fiction.

Jews.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 672 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.

Summary:

"Selected by Cynthia Ozick from a dozen books written across more than fifty years, the essays and short stories gathered here constitute a summing-up of her remarkable literary career. In such classic essays as 'Who Owns Anne Frank?,' 'What Helen Keller Saw,' 'Dostoevsky's Unabomber,' and 'Transcending the Kafkaesque,' Ozick examines some of the world's most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling contemporary literary and moral issues, and looks into the wellsprings of her own lifelong engagement with literature. In her short stories, including 'A Hebrew Sibyl,' 'What Happened to the Baby?,' 'Dictation,' 'The Biographer's Hat,' and 'The Conversion of the Jews,' Ozick demonstrates again and again her stylistic brilliance and the originality of her distinctive interweaving of the strands of history and myth." - Amazon.com

Contents:

Stories. The coast of New Zealand ; The biographer's hat ; Sin; Amercenary ; Virility ; Bloodshed ; Shots ; Usurpation (other people's stories) ; Levitation ; The bloodline of the Alkanas ; The story of my family ; Actors ; At Fumicaro ; A Hebrew Sibyl ; What happenedto the baby? ; The conversion of the Jews ; Dictation

Essays. Transcending the Kafkaesque ; The Phantasmagoria of Bruno Schulz ; What Hellen Keller saw ; T.S. Eliot at 101 ; Who owns Anne Frank? ; Isaac Babel and the identity question ; Dostoyevsky's unabomber ; "Please, stories are stories": Bernard Malamud ; Mrs. Virginia Woolf: a madwoman and her nurse ; The lastingness of Saul Bellow ; A drug store Eden ; Washington, 1946 ; She: portrait of the essay as a warm body.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

ISBN:

9780593992203

0593992202

OCLC:

1485510880