In a Hotel Garden by Gabriel Josipovici - ISBN: 9780856359989
Hardcover
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 to understand Jews. Josipovici’s other works include “Text and Voice” and “Steps: selected fiction and drama”.

In a Hotel Garden

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  • Hardcover

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    4 May 1993

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Summary

“In a Hotel Garden” is the strangest and most enigmatic of Gabriel Josipovici’s many strange, enigmatic novels. On the surface it is a simple story of the growing obsession young Englishman with a Jewish woman he meets on holiday. Gradually it reveals itself as an exploration of power of memory and imagination, also raising vividly the question of how far it is possible for non-Jews to understand Jews, however intrigued by them they may be. In a haunting play of echoes the novel presents us n…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780856359989
ISBN-10:085635998X
Author:Gabriel Josipovici
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint:Carcanet Press Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:4 May 1993
Weight:312g
Dimensions:223mm x 145mm x 15mm
About The Author

Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 to Jewish parents of Italo-Russian, Romano-Levantine extraction. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to England. He read English at a St.Edmund Hall, Oxford and from 1963 to 1998 was first a lecturer, then a Professor in the School of European Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of some twenty novels, ten books of criticism, a memoir of his mother, the poet Sacha Rabinovitch, and numerous stage and radio plays. His reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Times Literary Supplement, the New York and the London Review of Books. Carcanet publish his novels and fictions Contre-Jour (1986), In the Fertile Land (1987), Steps (1990), The Big Glass (1991), In a Hotel Garden (1993) and Moo Pak (1995) and his essays Text and Voice (1993). His most recent fictions with Carcanet are The Cemetery in Barnes (2018), longlisted for the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize and shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize, and Hotel Andromeda (2014). Carcanet also published his non-fiction Forgetting (2019) and 100 Days (2021) and the combined fiction and literary critical book Partita and A Winter in Zürau (2024).

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