| Curriculum Vitae Contributor(s): Hoffmann, Yoel (Author), Cole, Peter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811218325 ISBN-13: 9780811218320 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2009 Annotation: It must be said that this experimental novel is also part memoir. Yoel Hoffmann's funny and utterly unique story is a triumphant look backward and inward from his escape from the Holocaust to his time in an orphanage, youth, two marriages, fatherhood, and his studies in Japanese Buddhism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009019757 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 quietly but becomes more and more hypnotic and amazing. Funny, gorgeous and utterly unique, Curriculum Vitae is Yoel Hoffmann's triumphant look backward and inward: How stupid we are to let the world toss us from one place to another, while we need to speak to dentists and poets like warehouse clerks who keep an account of old equipment (bags here and belts there) and pile it up on the floor. What do we remember? The lake at Biwa and the houses across it. The cherry blossoms and Auschwitz, Treblinka, Maidenak.... "Hoffmann," as the Chicago Tribune put it, "is not just a good writer but a great one, with the ability to find, in the moment-to-moment dislocation of daily existence, epiphanies of revelatory force . . . What Hoffmann has achieved is a kind of magic." Hoffmann has also been hailed as "miraculous" (A. B. Yehoshua), "spectacular" (The New Yorker), "radiant" (World Literature Today), and "stunning" (The New Leader). |
Contributor Bio(s): Cole, Peter: - Peter Cole's previous books of poems include Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions). Among his volumes of translation are The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492. Cole, who divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007.Hoffmann, Yoel: - Yoel Hoffmann was born in Brasow, Romania in 1937. He is presently a citizen of Israel, and is Professor of Eastern Philosophy at the U. of Haifa. He has had a lifelong scholarly engagement with Hebrew literature, Western philosophy, and Japanese Buddhism. His is the winner of the first Koret Jewish Book Award. His books include The Heart is Katmandu, Bernhardt, The Christ of Fish, and Katschen & The Book of Joseph. |