The Messiah of Stockholm (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cynthia Ozick
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, World War II, 1980’s, Books, Truth, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Poland or Polish people, Literary criticism
- Locales: Stockholm, Sweden
The Messiah of Stockholm has a dual purpose: It is Ozick's tribute to Bruno Schulz, the legendary Polish author of Sklepy Cynamonowe (1934; Cinnamon Shops, and Other Stories, 1963) killed by the Nazis in a mass slaying. The Messiah of Stockholm also focuses on the aspect of human nature that craves knowledge of the past in order to have a basis upon which to mold a perception of the present. The deeply human need to have a personal, as well as a cultural, history is one theme winding through this complex novel; this need for a self-history directs the path...
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