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Gabriel Josipovici
This is Gabriel Josipovici's most melodramatic and enigmatic fiction to date, as though one of Magritte's paintings had come to life to the rhythms of a Bach partita.
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Deals with Tancredo Pavone, the wealthy and eccentric Sicilian nobleman and avant-garde composer. In this book his manservant recalls what his master told him about his colourful life and repeats…
This novel by the French writer Gabriel Josipovici is an exploration into the power of memory and imagination, also raising the question of how far it is possible for non-Jews…
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Taking his cue from an anecdote connected with Bach’s late masterpiece, the Goldbery Variations , this indefinable book is a collection of 30 individual stories which, when read together, turns…
Heart’s Wings gathers twenty-three stories written by Gabriel Josipovici over the last fifteen years.
A new collection of groundbreaking work from the distinguished essayist and author
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The 18th novel from the distinguished novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright. A short, intense mystery novel that begins in gentle elegy and ends in diabolism and murder.
This personal book explores both the public and the private dimensions of forgetting and its scary Siamese twin, remembering.
A novel based on the life of painter, Pierre Bonnard.
Jack Tolenado, a Sephardic Jew from Egypt and ex-University lecturer in English is writing a history of Moor Park which is also a history of himself and his times, of…
An autobiography emerges from this Covid diary by the celebrated novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright.
Answers questions as to whether the Bible is in fact one book of a collection of writings, the type of book it is, and whether it stands as a coherent…
Charts some of Modernism’s key stages, from Durer, Rabelais, and Cervantes to the present, bringing together an array of artists, musicians, and writers - including Beckett, Borges, Friedrich, Cezanne, Stevens…
In this brilliant new book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we can feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent…
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive-very…
Monika Fludernik
This study is the first monograph on the contemporary British novelist and playwright Gabriel Josipovici (1940- ), author of fourteen novels and several dozens of short stories, some thirty plays…
Franz Kafka
Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime.
Jonathan Magonet,Gabriel Josipovici,John Barton
Too often Bible stories are familiar to us in the simplified version we learnt as children, or through the lessons they are supposed to teach us in religious homilies. Yet…
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Agota Kristof
Narrated in a series of brief vignettes, The Illiterate is Kristof ‘s memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early…
