The Puttermesser Papers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

At a glance:

  • Author: Cynthia Ozick
  • First Published: 1997
  • Type of Work: Novel
  • Time of Work: Late twentieth century
  • Setting: New York City
  • Principal Characters: Ruth Puttermesser, Xanthippe, Morris Rappoport, Rupert Rabeeno
  • Genres: Long fiction
  • Subjects: Feminism
  • Locales: New York, NY

Cynthia Ozick—a distinguished novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator—has collected, in The Puttermesser Papers, two short stories and three novellas that have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and Salmagundi over the past fifteen years. The story “Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry, Her Afterlife” and the novella “Puttermesser and Xanthippe” have also been published in Ozick’s Levitation: Five Fictions (1982). All center on Ruth Puttermesser—her name...

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