In Facing the Fires, Bernard Horn introduces A. B. Yehoshua, Israel’s greatest living novelist, to an English-speaking audience. Yehoshua is also his country’s most audacious thinker about politics, culture, history, and Jewish identity. Yehoshua’s achievement has been recognized throughout the world, and he has been awarded literary prizes in both Israel and the United States. A lively, controversial, and prophetic voice in his homeland, Yehoshua rigorously tests his community’s deepest pieties: religion, Zionism, and the agony of the Holocaust. A Jew who does not believe in God, he is a committed Zionist and member of the “peace camp” in Israel that welcomed the Palestinian uprising of 1987. In the tradition of the Paris Review interviews, Horn’s conversations with Yehoshua reveal the intricate play of literary, psychological, mythological, and political motifs in the novelist’s work. Stimulated by a warm friendship between the two scholars, the intellectual energy of Facing the Fires offers readers a pleasure they might expect only from fiction.

Facing the Fires: Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)

Literature & Fiction

Horn, Bernard

History & Criticism

Syracuse University Press

Says Pulitzer Prizing winning poet Carl Dennis, "Love's Fingerprints makes its strange and original music from the duet of past and present. Emerson said that when he was educating himself in his youth, two great parties were in contention, 'the party of hope and the party of memory.' The poems in Love's Fingerprints belong to both parties, braiding them together in moving dialogue." Poet Bernard Horn investigates the deep imprints made on us by those we love, living and remembered: mother and father, wife/lover, children and grandchildren, ancestors known only through stories passed down, homes long lost and homes holding us today, and two nations--the United States and Israel. Family life intersects with the larger world, with an undercurrent of the Book of Job. Says Major Jackson, author of The Absurd Man: "Love's Fingerprints emerges in the ear as a jubilant song of persistent memory that entrancingly recalls a life made rich by the promontories of family and abundant love. Humane and exuberant, his is the kind of intellect that rushes over the past like water over pebbles, elevating ordinary moments to the realm of art with a luminosity that startles. Such wondrous clarity of language and sound are owed to feats of wisdom but also a loyalty to one's revelations."

Love's Fingerprints: Poems

Poetry

Circling Rivers

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