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Curriculum Vitae
Yoel Hoffmann
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Description for Curriculum Vitae
Paperback. Translator(s): Cole, Peter. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811218320
SKU
V9780811218320
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About Yoel Hoffmann
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, ... Read more
Reviews for Curriculum Vitae
"Hoffmann writes in a language of miracles."
American Book Review "A reason to celebrate...Hoffmann shows himself to be an artist of the profoundly fantastic."
Hadassah Magazine "A writer of international importance...Hoffmann refracts Jewish popular lore and folk wisdom through a postmodernist prism, brightening his prose with snatches of verse, songs, diary excerpts, letters, ominous dreams, lush erotic passages ... Read more
American Book Review "A reason to celebrate...Hoffmann shows himself to be an artist of the profoundly fantastic."
Hadassah Magazine "A writer of international importance...Hoffmann refracts Jewish popular lore and folk wisdom through a postmodernist prism, brightening his prose with snatches of verse, songs, diary excerpts, letters, ominous dreams, lush erotic passages ... Read more