num_pages: 272
description: Quarrel &amp; Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists.In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is. She roams effortlessly from Kafka to James, Styron to Stein, and, in the book's most famous essay, dissects the gaudy commercialism that has reduced Anne Frank to "usable goods." Courageous, audacious, and sublime, these essays have the courage of conviction, the probing of genius, and the durable audacity to matter.
language: English
title: Quarrel & Quandary: Essays
titlecomplete: Quarrel & Quandary: Essays
genres: Literary Criticism, Criticism, The United States Of America, Jewish, Literature, Literary Fiction, Essays, American, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 186
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Koret Jewish Book Award
category: Biography, Autobiography or Literary Study
publisher: Vintage