Mordecai Richler's imperfect search for moral values:
"From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surprised readers. Criticized for his portrayals of Canada and accused of being anti-Jewish, many found his mix of progressive sympathies and illiberal satire confounding but hard to ignore. His nove...
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago
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| Zusammenfassung: | "From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surprised readers. Criticized for his portrayals of Canada and accused of being anti-Jewish, many found his mix of progressive sympathies and illiberal satire confounding but hard to ignore. His novels were too engaging: their subjects crackled with contemporary relevance, and their humour was irresistible. Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values is an investigation into Richler's novels and the conflicting reactions they provoked. Taking into consideration the most prevalent and voluble responses to his novels, Shana Rosenblatt Mauer examines the texts themselves and assesses how they stand up to these reactions. She asks whether the backlash was justified, and whether these novels savaged Canada, maligned the Jewish community, disparaged women, mocked gays, and generally despaired of modern life and contemporary culture. As the first full study of Richler's entire corpus, this book considers these issues in the context of a long career--one as consistent as it was varied--in which an ideological discourse often, but not always, evolved. Turning away from impressions, assumptions, and generalizations, many informed by Richler's non-fiction and on-record comments, Mauer focuses instead on the substance of the novels themselves, and finds there a restless search for lasting moral value. Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values explores the construction of literary texts that have made Richler one of the most intriguing and successful modern writers, as well as an essential voice in Canadian and Jewish literature in the second half of the twentieth century."-- |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 232 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780228012023 9780228012016 |
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