Author: Gabriel Josipovici

Publisher: Carcanet Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 372

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From the tittle essay, which examines the relationship between artists' works and their beliefs, to the concluding meditations on memory and the Holocaust, The Singer on the Shore is unified by the two themes of Jewish experience, with its consciousness of exile and the time bound nature of human activity, and of the role of the work of art as a toy, to be played with and dreamed about." "Josipovici's critical writing is informed by his own experience as a writer, and is thus both authoritative and undogmatic. This is a volume that, like a book of poems, rewards repeated reading, for it not only illuminates the topics with which it deals, it also raises the larger question of the place of art in life and of the possibilities open to art today."--Jacket.