Fame and Folly (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Cynthia Ozick
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Authors or writers, Literature, Autobiography, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Jews or Jewish life, Fame
Like runners, most writers have preferred distances. Cynthia Ozick is most at home in mid-length forms. Her most memorable fiction has been in Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976) and The Shawl (1989) and the short novels The Cannibal Galaxy (1983) and The Messiah of Stockholm (1987). With few exceptions, the most impressive essays in her two previous collections have been the ten- to twenty-page ones: extended examinations of Edith Wharton, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Bernard Malamud, Harold Bloom and “a new Yiddish” in Art and Ardor (1983), and...
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