Witz - (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Joshua Cohen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of the great comic epics of our time: the Last Jewish Novel about the Last Jew in the World.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>On Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent, ignorant man-child. As he finds himself transformed into an international superstar, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo-ball soup is in every bowl, sidelocks are hip; and the only truly Jewish Jew left is increasingly stigmatized for not being religious. Since his very existence exposes the illegitimacy of the newly converted, Israelien becomes the object of a worldwide hunt...</p> <p>Meanwhile, in the not-too-distant future of our own, "real" world, another last Jew--the last living Holocaust survivor--sits alone in a snowbound Manhattan, providing a final melancholy witness to his experiences in the form of the punch lines to half-remembered jokes.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>Witz</i> is a brave and artful attempt to explore and explode the limits of the sentence."--New York Times<br><br>"The sort of postmodern epic that arrives like a comet about once every decade, like <i>Infinite Jest</i> or <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i>. Like any epic, it defies summary and overflows with puns, allusions, digressions, authorial sleights of hand and structural gags-in the tradition of Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift and Laurence Sterne."--New York Observer<br>
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