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11 produkter
Japanese Death Poems
Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
Häftad, 2018
147 kr
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Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the death poem. Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of …
Katschen and The Book of Joseph
Av Yoel Hoffmann, David Kriss m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
210 kr
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Katschen & The Book of Joseph makes an amazing American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. Intensely moving, the two novellas display the entirely original poetry and hypnotic verve of Hoffmann's atomized language, which Rosmarie Waldrop has called "utterly enchanting--it is like nothing …
Katschen & The Book of Joseph
Häftad, 1999
138 kr
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In kaleidoscopic fragments, Hoffmann refracts Jewish popular lore and folk wisdom through a postmodernist prism, brightening his prose with snatches of verse, songs, diary excerpts, letters, ominous dreams, lush erotic passages and Yiddish sayings. "The Book of Joseph" tells the tragic story of a …
Shunra and the Schmetterling
Häftad, 2004
195 kr
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Shunra is Aramaic for “cat.” Schmetterling is German for “butterfly.” In Yoel Hoffmann’s new book, these and numerous other creatures, cultures, and languages meet in a magical shimmering hymn to childhood. Hoffmann traces his hero’s developing consciousness of the ways-and-wonders of the world as …
Bernhard
Häftad, 2006
216 kr
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Devastated by the loss of his wife, Bernhard disconsolately walks thestreets of Jerusalem, considering Gandhi, analysis, the beauty of hiswife Paula's neck, his Arab neighbors, Kokoschka, the Messiah, and theinner life of his friend Gustav the plumber. As his hero tries to cometo terms with his …
Curriculum Vitae
Häftad, 2009
181 kr
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Yoel Hoffmann’s Curriculum Vitae is the remarkable summation of the writer’s life: his escape from the Holocaust; his arrival in Palestine; time in an orphanage; youth; two marriages; fatherhood; his studies of Japanese Buddhism; his travels; his ever-busy inner life. Curriculum Vitae begins …
Moods
Häftad, 2015
181 kr
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Part novel and part memoir, Yoel Hoffmann’s Moods is flooded with feelings, evoked by his family, losses, loves, the soul’s hidden powers, old phone books, and life in the Galilee—with its every scent, breeze, notable dog, and odd neighbor. Carrying these shards is a general tenderness, accentuated …
Fiskarnas Kristus
Inbunden, 2023
259 kr
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Yoel Hoffmann (f. 1937) har kallats det hebreiska avantgardets främste författare och Israels svar på Borges. Nu introduceras han på svenska med Fiskarna Kristus där Hoffmann lägger en episk mosaik över sin faster Magdas liv, född i Wien och ännu tysktalande efter decennier i Israel. I Tel Aviv …
Heart is Katmandu
Inbunden, 2001
262 kr
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Set in today's Haifa and presented in 237 dream-like small chapters, it is a book in which shyness and stumbling tenderness emerge triumphant. Poet Peter Cole has made a beautiful translation, capturing Hoffmann's intense and unfathomably original style. A starred Kirkus Review acclaimed the novel …
Christ of Fish: Novel
Häftad, 2006
166 kr
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The Christ of Fish is a gorgeous novel conjured out of a mosaic of 233 pieces of Aunt Magda's life in Tel Aviv. Originally from Vienna, Hoffmann's heroine is a widow who still speaks German after decades in Israel: we see many views of Aunt Magdaher childhood, her marriage, her nephew, her best …
Heart is Katmandu
Häftad, 2006
166 kr
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Set in today's Haifa and presented in 237 dream-like small chapters, it is a book in which shyness and stumbling tenderness emerge triumphant. Poet Peter Cole has made a beautiful translation, capturing Hoffmann's intense and unfathomably original style. A starred Kirkus Review acclaimed the novel …
