The inveterate dreamer : essays and conversations on Jewish culture / Ilan Stavans.

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Not only do "modern" Jewish languages like Yiddish and Hebrew have their own Jewish writers, but every major Western tongue-from German and Russian to English and Portuguese-does as well. These writers are often at the crossroad between the two traditions: their Jewish one and their own national one. Is there such a thing as a modern Jewish literary tradition, one navigating across linguistic and national lines? If so, how should one define it? Stavans explores the problems and prospects of representing Jewish experiences through such media as Holocaust memoirs and Jewish museums; astutely comments on well-known intellectual figures, including Lionel Trilling, Isaac Babel, Primo Levi, Harold Bloom, and Walter Benjamin; engages in memorable conversations with Norman Manea, Joseph Brodsky, and Ariel Dorfman; and offers compelling glimpses of revelatory moments in his own life.

pt. I. Language & Tradition -- Language and Tradition -- pt. 2. Essays -- George Steiner's Errata -- Man of Ashes: Novelizing the Holocaust? -- Arthur A. Cohen: Reader -- Mestizo -- A.B. Yehoshua -- Stones and Ideas: David Hare's Via Dolorosa -- Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish Gauchos -- Nathan Englander -- Danilo Kis in Buenos Aires -- Harold Bloom: A Microprofile -- On Moacyr Scliar -- Elias Canetti: Sephardic Master -- Hotel Bolivia -- On Lionel Trilling -- Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist -- Isaac Babel: Tales of Ambivalence -- Marcos Aguinis: The Inveterate Dreamer -- Peter Nadas: The End of a Family Story -- Kafka's Last Letter: A Heaven without Crows -- Arthur Schnitzler and Stanley Kubrick -- Borges's Jewish "Yo" -- The Verbal Quest -- Museum Fever -- David Roskies's Shtetl -- The Name -- Walter Benjamin: The Demon of Inspiration -- Isaac Goldemberg's Mixed Blood -- pt. 3. Conversations -- Norman Manca -- Joseph Brodsky -- Ariel Dorfman -- pt. 4. In the First Person -- Hanukkah: A Brief Reminiscence -- September 19, 1985 -- A Matter of Choice: Response to a Questionnaire -- Lost in Translation: An Autobiographical Essay -- pt. 5. Memory & Literature -- Memory and Literature.

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