Heir to the Glimmering World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Cynthia Ozick
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1935-1937
- Setting: New York State
- Principal Characters: Rose Meadows, Professor Rudolf Mitwisser, Elsa Mitwisser, Anneliese Mitwisser, Waltraut Mitwisser, James A’Bair, Jacob (Jack) Meadows, Bertram, Ninel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: New York
- Locales: New York
Heir to the Glimmering World is Cynthia Ozick's intense yet darkly comic fifth novel. In it, she introduces the Mitwissers, refugees from Adolf Hitler's Germany who are attempting to make their way in the prewar confusion of Albany, New York. Rose Meadows is the narrator but certainly not the center of this book; Professor Rudolf Mitwisser, his unhappy wife, Elsa, and the corrupted alcoholic James A’Bair are the major characters.
The novel reads, in part, like a twenty-first century version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847). Not coincidentally, Ozick lays...
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