The Teller and the Tale: Essays on Literature and Culture

by Gabriel Josipovici

The Teller and the Tale , the latest book from novelist, playwright, biographer and critic, Gabriel Josipovici, contains essays which take a fresh, analytical approach to the works of literary giants including Proust, Kafka, Eliot, Beckett, Muriel Spark, and many more. Josipovici is the authoritative voice in literature, and this book is the ideal gift for any reader with a deep love of the classics.

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2016

About the author

Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a First in 1961. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Sussex. He is the author of seventeen novels, three volumes of short stories, eight critical works, and numerous stage and radio plays, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic. In 2001 he published A Life, a biographical memoir of his mother, the translator and poet Sacha Rabinovitch (London Magazine editions). His most recent works are Two Novels: 'After' and 'Making Mistakes' (Carcanet), What Ever Happened to Modernism? (Yale University Press), Heart's Wings (Carcanet, 2010) and Infinity (Carcanet, 2012).

Reviews

[Martin Henson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gabriel Josipovici is wise and writes beautifully - wisdom is in short supply these days.