Ebook: Teller and the Tale: Essays on Literature and Culture

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Proust and I; Tristram Shandy: Not Waving But Drowning; Empty Rooms; A Napoleon of Thought : Paul Valéry and his Notebooks; Reading Kafka Today; The Stories of the Germans; The Legends of the Jews; Two Resurrections; Medieval Matters; The Tallith and the Dishcloth; The Hebrew Poetry of Medieval Spain; Sacred Trash; Claudel and the Bible; 'Like a Bad Russian Novel': Eliot in His Letters; Boris Pasternak; György Kurtág: Samuel Beckett What is the Word; 'The Itch to Write': Beckett's Early Letters; Why Write Fiction?