Katschen and the Book of JosephNew Directions Publishing, 1999 - 162 Seiten 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." |
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Katschen: & The Book of Joseph Yoel Hoffmann,David Kriss,Alan Preister,Edward A. Levenston Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |
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Alexanderplatz Arabic Aunt Oppenheim Avigail baby Berlin bird body Budapest cabbage called Chaya-Leah child Cut-Foot dead eyes face father fingers Franz Liszt Frau Kurtz Fride Friedrichstrasse Genya German German woman glass Gouged-Eye Gurnisht head Herr Cohn's Herr Doktor Schmidt Herr Druck Herr Grossman horse howwa Hungarian Itsikl Jews Joseph says Joseph Silverman Joseph thinks Katschen looked Katschen remembered Katschen saw Katschen thought Katschen's hand kibbutz Komm Kurt Kurt Becker Lajos laughed legs looked at Katschen Margarethe Miriam mirror mother mouth neck night once picture placed policeman Pomeranz says Reb Chaim Sandor seemed to Katschen sews shadow Siegfried sipped sitting smelled soul stand stomach stood street Suddenly sweet porridge synagogue tailor thought Katschen told took trousers turned Uncle Arthur walked wall wife window Yiddish Yingele Yingele's Yoachim YOEL HOFFMANN