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Front Matter, And A Letter From The Editor, Vol. 1, No. 1, Luis González-Del-Valle
Front Matter, And A Letter From The Editor, Vol. 1, No. 1, Luis González-Del-Valle
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Editorial board and Advisory Council, masthead, and Letter From the Editor
Jewish Destiny In The Novels Of Albert Cohen, David J. Bond
Jewish Destiny In The Novels Of Albert Cohen, David J. Bond
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The unity of Cohen's novels is due to their common theme of Jewish destiny. This is traced in the lives of the Valeureux and of Solal. The Valeureux are caricatures of the Jew, and demonstrate that Jewish identity and destiny are imposed by others. Their lives are precarious because Jews are always persecuted, a message also conveyed by other persecuted characters and by Cohen's direct interventions. But the Valeureux cling to their Jewishness and exalt their religion because it teaches the need to tame man's instincts. Solal seeks success in Gentile society, but learns it is a cruel society that …
Breton's Nadja: A Spiritual Ethnography, Louis Tremaine
Breton's Nadja: A Spiritual Ethnography, Louis Tremaine
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
A comparison of Breton's Nadja (1928, revised 1962) with Carlos Castaneda's recent ethnographic studies provides numerous insights into the structure of Breton's work. The narrative technique of Nadja combines documentary and literary modes, reflecting the double focus of the narrator's personal quest for self-knowledge and quasi-scientific quest for knowledge of external surrealistic phenomena. Nadja offers Breton a personal relationship capable of integrating, through an essentially cultural process, the subjective and objective levels of his investigation, but his fear of madness causes him to reject this personal involvement. He thereby rejects the only source of the integrative understanding he seeks, turning …