Katschen & the Book of Joseph

In kaleidoscopic fragments, Hoffmann refracts Jewish popular lore and folk wisdom through a postmodernist prism, brightening his prose with snatches of verse, songs, diary excerpts, letters, ominous dreams, lush erotic passages and Yiddish sayings. "The Book of Joseph" tells the tragic story of a widowed Jewish tailor and his son in 1930s Berlin. "Katschen" gives an astounding child's-eye view of a boy orphaned in the new state of Israel. The novellas radiate the original poetry of Hoffmann's atomized hypnotic language, which Rosmarie Waldrop has called "utterly enchanting--it's like nothing else."

Author: Yoel Hoffmann
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/17/1999
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.42w x 0.45d
ISBN13: 9780811214056
ISBN10: 0811214052
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary