Quarrel & Quandary: EssaysKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 13 nov. 2001 - 272 pages Quarrel & Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists. In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is. She roams effortlessly from Kafka to James, Styron to Stein, and, in the book's most famous essay, dissects the gaudy commercialism that has reduced Anne Frank to "usable goods." Courageous, audacious, and sublime, these essays have the courage of conviction, the probing of genius, and the durable audacity to matter. |
Table des matières
Dostoyevskys Unabomber | 3 |
The Posthumous Sublime | 26 |
The Impossibility of Being Kafka | 42 |
The Impious Impatience of | 59 |
Who Owns Anne Frank? | 74 |
The Rights of History | 103 |
Public Intellectuals | 120 |
The Selfishness of | 127 |
A Prophet of Modernism | 155 |
The Ladle | 162 |
A Swedish Novel | 173 |
Portrait of the Essay | 178 |
A Drug Store Eden | 188 |
Lovesickness | 204 |
Got Fired from | 213 |
The Synthetic Sublime | 226 |
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