The Messiah Of Stockholm
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A man adrift between worlds, Lars Andemening — a Stockholm book reviewer — is consumed by a singular, burning obsession: he believes himself to be the lost son of Bruno Schulz, the legendary Polish-Jewish writer murdered by the Nazis in 1942. In Cynthia Ozick's The Messiah of Stockholm, this haunted conviction draws Lars into a shadowy literary underworld when a woman appears claiming to possess Schulz's mythic lost manuscript — a novel called The Messiah — and Lars must confront the terrifying question of whether redemption through art is salvation or madness. Ozick, one of the most celebrated prose stylists of American Jewish literature, constructs a labyrinthine meditation on identity, cultural memory, and the near-religious power of literature itself. Her prose is dense with allusion and moral urgency, weaving the real tragedy of Schulz's fate into a fictional world where imagination and grief are indistinguishable. Short, ferocious, and intellectually unrelenting, this novel leaves the reader questioning whether the stories we inherit — or invent — can ever truly set us free.
Author: Cynthia Ozick
Format: Hardback
Published: 1987, Knopf
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A man adrift between worlds, Lars Andemening — a Stockholm book reviewer — is consumed by a singular, burning obsession: he believes himself to be the lost son of Bruno Schulz, the legendary Polish-Jewish writer murdered by the Nazis in 1942. In Cynthia Ozick's The Messiah of Stockholm, this haunted conviction draws Lars into a shadowy literary underworld when a woman appears claiming to possess Schulz's mythic lost manuscript — a novel called The Messiah — and Lars must confront the terrifying question of whether redemption through art is salvation or madness. Ozick, one of the most celebrated prose stylists of American Jewish literature, constructs a labyrinthine meditation on identity, cultural memory, and the near-religious power of literature itself. Her prose is dense with allusion and moral urgency, weaving the real tragedy of Schulz's fate into a fictional world where imagination and grief are indistinguishable. Short, ferocious, and intellectually unrelenting, this novel leaves the reader questioning whether the stories we inherit — or invent — can ever truly set us free.