num_pages: 300
description: From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor &amp; Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.
language: English
title: Metaphor & Memory
titlecomplete: Metaphor & Memory
genres: Literary Criticism, Criticism, Literature, Writing, Literary Fiction, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 142
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group