The Messiah Of Stockholm
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - minor tear. Page Condition: Appears aged with slight yellowing.
A taut, intellectually dazzling novella, The Messiah of Stockholm tells the story of Lars Andemening, a Polish émigré and Stockholm book reviewer who is convinced he is the lost son of Bruno Schulz — the legendary Polish-Jewish writer murdered by the Nazis in 1942. Consumed by an obsessive search for identity and literary inheritance, Lars's world fractures when a mysterious woman arrives claiming to possess Schulz's lost manuscript, the mythical The Messiah. Ozick constructs a haunting meditation on authorship, imagination, and the seductive danger of delusion, weaving together themes of Holocaust memory and the power of storytelling with precise, luminous prose. A masterwork of postmodern literary fiction, the novel argues that the line between inspiration and madness is as fragile as the pages of a manuscript long thought destroyed.
Author: Cynthia Ozick
Format: Hardback
Published: 1987, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - minor tear. Page Condition: Appears aged with slight yellowing.
A taut, intellectually dazzling novella, The Messiah of Stockholm tells the story of Lars Andemening, a Polish émigré and Stockholm book reviewer who is convinced he is the lost son of Bruno Schulz — the legendary Polish-Jewish writer murdered by the Nazis in 1942. Consumed by an obsessive search for identity and literary inheritance, Lars's world fractures when a mysterious woman arrives claiming to possess Schulz's lost manuscript, the mythical The Messiah. Ozick constructs a haunting meditation on authorship, imagination, and the seductive danger of delusion, weaving together themes of Holocaust memory and the power of storytelling with precise, luminous prose. A masterwork of postmodern literary fiction, the novel argues that the line between inspiration and madness is as fragile as the pages of a manuscript long thought destroyed.