Aught from Naught : A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll

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Author/collaborator
Title
Aught from Naught : A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll
Abstract
The publisher’s notes indicates that Montreal author and poet A.M. Klein's 1951 novel The Second Scroll “is a complex, demanding and disturbing book, and one of the most fascinating and innovative novels written in Canada. This book situates The Second Scroll in a Canadian literary and critical context, discusses Klein's use and view of language, examines the novel in terms of the aesthetics of Holocaust literature, and provides a chapter-by-chapter critical commentary on the text.” The novel concerns the quest for meaning in the post-Holocaust world, as an unnamed narrator, a Montreal journalist, editor, poet and Zionist travels to the State of Israel soon after its founding, searching for his long-lost uncle, Melech Davidson, a Holocaust survivor.
Place
Victoria, BC
Publisher
English Literary Studies, University of Victoria
Date
1999
# of Pages
173p.
Language
en
ISBN
978-0-920604-69-4
Citation
Hyman, Roger. Aught from Naught : A.M. Klein’s The Second Scroll. Victoria, BC: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1999.
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