Adam Resurrected: A Novel - Softcover

Kaniuk, Yoram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802136893 ISBN 13: 9780802136893

Publisher: Grove Press, 2000

Synopsis

The crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters, Adam Resurrected remains one of the most powerful works of Holocaust fiction ever written. A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam Stein is now the ringleader at an asylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holocaust survivors. Alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients, Adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been irreversibly blurred. With the biting irony of Catch-22, the intellectual vigor of Saul Bellow, and the pathos and humanity that are Kaniuk's hallmarks, Adam Resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Adam Resurrected is the crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters and remains one of the most powerful works of Holocaust fiction ever written. Adam Stein, a former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, is now the ringleader at an asylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holocaust survivors. Alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients, Adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line has been irreversibly blurred between sanity and madness. With the biting irony of Catch-22, the intellectual vigor of Saul Bellow, and the pathos and humanity that are Kaniuk's hallmarks, Adam Resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption.

"Yoram Kaniuk is one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World."--The New York Times

"Of the novelists I have discovered in translation...the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Peter Handke, and Yoram Kaniuk."--Susan Sontag

"A masterpiece of inventiveness, compassion, and stylistic virtuosity."--Jewish Spectator

"Whether it is due to the originality of his broken style, or the sensitivity of his characters--the men and women imprisoned by their angels and demons--or his implacable lucidity, Kaniuk must be considered one of the great writers of our time."--Le Monde

Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv in 1930 and took part in Israel's War of Independence in 1948. A painter, journalist, and theater critic, he is best known as a novelist. His books have been translated into twenty languages and have earned him the Bialik Prize, the French Prix de Droits de l'Homme, and the Israeli President's Prize.

About the Author

Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv in 1930 and took part in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. A painter, journalist, and theater critic, he is a senior member of Israel’s cultural establishment and is best known as a novelist. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages to great acclaim, and have earned him numerous international honors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0802136893
• ISBN 13: 9780802136893
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384