Levitation (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Cynthia Ozick
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novella and short stories
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Religion, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Women, Imagination, Photography or photographers, Parties, Fertility, Hellenism, Paganism
Form and Content
In Levitation: Five Fictions, Cynthia Ozick presents the reader with four short stories and a novella, all of which focus on the problematic relationship between the Jewish artist and history. This book, Ozick’s third collection of short fiction, features women protagonists whose lives are disrupted by their own creations.
“Levitation,” the work that opens and names this collection, begins as a couple named Feingold try to rise above their secondary status as authors by giving a party for famous writers. Although no stars attend, the...
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