Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel David Josipovici ( born October 8, 1940 in Nice) is a British writer and literary critic.

Family

Gabriel Josipovici comes from an Egyptian- Jewish family: His mother was the poet and translator Sacha Rabinovitch ( 1910-1996 ). The maternal ancestors of Sacha Rabinovitch included in the Cairo Sephardic tribe of Cattaui. Her father was an Ashkenazi Russian from Odessa, who had moved to Cairo. Here Sacha Rabinovitch and Jean Josipovici married in 1934., The couple went from Cairo to the French Aix -en- Provence, where Josipovicis father in 1941 separated from the family.

Life

During the Vichy regime Gabriel Josipovici and his mother of anti-Semitic persecution escaped by fleeing into the French Alps. After the end of World War II, he attended English-language schools, since 1950, in Cairo. Prior to the escalation of the Suez crisis in 1956, he emigrated with his mother to England. Here he finished his education at Cheltenham College ( Gloucestershire ). Subsequently, he studied English literature until 1961 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. From 1963 to 1998 Gabriel Josipovici has taught at the University of Sussex in Brighton. He was Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford. 2007 Josipovici held at the University of London a lecture on What ever happened to Modernism?

Position

In his literary and literary critical work, Gabriel Josipovici refers on one hand to contemporary writers such as Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges and Marcel Proust, on the other hand also to the classics such as Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare. With this reference, including several centuries, Josipovici contradicts the confines of a modern or post-modern division into epochs. After Josipovicis view keep the social crisis since the Reformation permanently. From this perspective, it is logical that the author omitted in his works on an omniscient narrator.

Publications

  • The World and the Book. A Study of Modern Fiction. Macmillan, London 1971
  • Writing and the Body. New Jersey Princeton University, Princeton 1982
  • The Lessons of Modernism and other essays. Macmillan, London 1987
  • The Book of God. A Response to the Bible. Yale University Press, New Haven 1988
  • Moo Pak. Carcanet Press 1994 German edition: Moo Pak. Translated from English by Jochen Schimmang. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-22457-1
  • German edition: Just kidding. Translated from English by Gerd Haffmans. Haffmans at Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-86150-563-0
  • Infinity: the story of a moment. Translated from English by Markus Hinterhäuser. Salzburg: Young and Young, 2012 ISBN 9783990270288
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