num_pages: 247
description: In her new collection of essays, Cynthia Ozick, everywhere acclaimed as a critic, novelist, and storyteller, examines some of the world's most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling contemporary literary and moral issues, and looks into the wellsprings of her own lifelong engagement with literature.She writes--quarrelsomely--about Crime and Punishment , about William Styron's Sophie's Choice , about the Book of Job. She inquires into the subterranean dispositions and quandaries of Kafka and Henry James. She discusses the difficulties inherent in the translation of great books, whether into film or into another language.She explores what she calls "the selfishness of art" and courts controversy with her views on The Diary of Anne Frank and its transformation for the stage. Her reflections on the "rights of history" and the "rights of imagination" tap a profound concern for truth in regard to the Holocaust. She considers the shifting splendors of New York City, past and present. And she revisits her youth more deeply and with more feeling--and comedy--than ever before, in essays that reveal some of the formative experiences of her life as a writer.Quarrel &amp; Quandary is a literary event and a cause for celebration.
language: English
title: Quarrel & Quandary: Essays
titlecomplete: Quarrel & Quandary: Essays
genres: Literary Fiction, Essays, Literary Criticism, The United States Of America, Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Literature, Jewish, 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: Knopf