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Title: Fiedler on the Roof: Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity by Leslie Fiedler ISBN: 0-87923-949-2 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: November, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95

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Summary: AN IRREVERENT SONATA
Comment: For the first time, after years of studies dedicated to the themes of Jewish identity in literature and society, to the literary archetypes and foundation myths in the diverse national consciences, Leslie Fiedler decided to collect into a book these very studies: challenging passages on the slant of a critical roof. They are strong passages indeed, eclectic writings of a professor resisting all academic tunnels and insisting on bringing those mythical plots back to the social fabric, revealing for instance the persistence of anti-semitism in literary models, as well as in the ways of thinking of the poorer classes. Startling essays, such as the one on Joyce, for once read from Bloom's perspective and not Dedalus's: a Joyce-Fiedler-Bloom, good and pathetic Jewish father. Or Jewish Christ, Jewish Ulysses, under the sign of persecution and exile. This work has a wealth of references and new associations, such as the one on the Holy Graal, whose myth - with a disquieting paradox - is led back to a re-interpretation of the Scriptures according to the Christian Vulgata. Starring on these pages are the great writers of the American Jewish tradition, as well as the positions of more recent authors, who make an ambiguous and self-inflicted usage of irony. A meditation on Job, and a concluding paper on Shoah and Memory, end the reflections of this most irreducible of tout-court critics.