Лучшие книги Синтии Озик

В этот сборник, одну из лучших книг о Холокосте, входят рассказ "Шаль" - он включался во многие антологии - и повесть "Роза", опубликованная вслед за рассказом. В "Шали" героиня рассказа в концлагере, в повести "Роза" она же - ей удалось выжить - в благополучной Америке, но ее жизнь все еще определяют ужасы прошлого. Время не всегда лечит, не все раны и не у всех затягиваются. Лишь тридцать лет спустя, на пороге старости, Роза сможет пересилить свое горе.

В Америке имя Синтии Озик известно не меньше, чем имена Филипа Рота или Исаака Башевиса Зингера, однако в России она печатается впервые. В сборник "Путермессер и московская родственница" вошли рассказы разных лет, в которых представлена широкая панорама жизни американского еврейства. Это интеллектуальная и вместе с тем страстная проза, в которой лирика и сарказм неотделимы друг от друга.

Невероятно богатую и мощную "прозу еврейской жизни" в Америке в этом сборнике представляют девять писателей. Одни - Маламуд, Мейлер - много печатались у нас, другие пользуются заслуженной известностью в Америке, но мы с ними почти, а то и вовсе незнакомы. Все эти авторы очень разные, а объединяет их высокое литературное мастерство и умение рассказать о жизни своих героев, будь то интеллектуалы, деловые люди или простые обыватели.

Замечательный прозаик, Синтия Озик в то же время и блистательный эссеист. Ее очерки о таких разных фигурах, как, к примеру, Исаак Бабель, Примо Леви, Анна Франк, Марк Твен, Хаим-Нахман Бялик, служат поводом для размышления о серьезнейших вопросах как истории евреев, так и их жизни сегодня. В ее произведениях, зачастую полемических и парадоксальных, интеллектуальная страсть сочетается с редкостной проницательностью. А ход мысли в эссе Синтии Озик развивается с новеллистической неожиданностью.

Because he was permitted to survive World War II, French Jew, Joseph Brill has dedicated his life to the exhortation of his childhood rabbi--to teach. As principal of a school in the American midwest, he teaches his version of enlightenment hoping to make a difference. But all he sees around him is debilitating mediocrity until the brilliant Hester Lilt enrolls her daughter in his school.

With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality."

Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists.

"The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle
"Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times
"A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.

The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape lassitude by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brother's family. Travelling from America to France, Bea leaves the stigma of divorce on the far side of the Atlantic; newly liberated, she chooses to defend her nephew and his girlfriend Lili by waging a war of letters on the brother she has promised to help. But Bea's generosity is a mixed blessing: those she tries to help seem to be harmed, and as Bea's family unravel from around her, she finds herself once again drawn to the husband she thought she had left in the past...

By one of America's great living writers, Foreign Bodies is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Bea's travails on the continent is a fierce and heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded and abused; earned and cherished; or even lost altogether.

Quarrel & Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists.

In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is. She roams effortlessly from Kafka to James, Styron to Stein, and, in the book's most famous essay, dissects the gaudy commercialism that has reduced Anne Frank to "usable goods." Courageous, audacious, and sublime, these essays have the courage of conviction, the probing of genius, and the durable audacity to matter.

From one of America's great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private dooms is the fertile subject of many of these remarkable essays from such literary giants as T.S. Eliot, Isaac Babel, Salman Rushdieand Henry James.

Ozick is a kind of narrative hypnotist. Her range is extraordinary; there is seemingly nothing she can't do. Her stories contain passages of intense lyricism and brilliant, hilarious, uncontainable inventiveness.

From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.

A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer's contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus, THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light.

A collection of five stories which play upon the theme of deception and the inability to see.