Joseph Skibell: 6 books

Book cover of My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things
by Joseph Skibell
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

Often comic, sometimes tender, profoundly truthful, the pleasure in these nonfiction pieces by award-winning novelist Joseph Skibell is discovering along with the author that catastrophes, fantasies, and delusions are what give sweetness and shape to our lives. “As a writer,” Skibell has...
Book cover of Six Memos from the Last Millennium

Six Memos from the Last Millennium

A Novelist Reads the Talmud

by Joseph Skibell
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

A thief-turned-saint, killed by an insult. A rabbi burning down his world in order to save it. A man who lost his sanity while trying to fathom the origin of the universe. A beautiful woman battling her brother's and her husband's egos to preserve their family. Stories such as these enliven the pages...
Book cover of A Blessing on the Moon
by Joseph Skibell
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010

Joseph Skibell’s magical tale about the Holocaust—a fable inspired by fact—received unanimous nationwide acclaim when first published in 1997. At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death is merely the beginning of Chaim’s troubles. In the opening pages, he is shot...
Book cover of A Curable Romantic
by Joseph Skibell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011

I fell in love with Emma Eckstein the moment I saw her from the fourth gallery of the Carl Theater, and this was also the night I met Sigmund Freud.” So goes the life, times, and loves of Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn, a fairly incurable romantic venturing optimistically through modern history. In this inventive...
Book cover of The English Disease
by Joseph Skibell
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

THE ENGLISH DISEASE is a remarkable feat, a story that mixes the Marx brothers and Maimonides, pornographic yoga with Polish paranoia, and the brutality of kindergarten with the beauty of the Kiddush. It's the tale of Charles Belski, an expert in the works of Gustav Mahler, who, like Mahler himself,...
Book cover of 塔木德故事集:認識猶太經典的哲人與浮生百態
by 喬瑟夫.史奇貝(Joseph Skibell)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 6, 2017

★華文世界第一本原典故事解析 ★認識猶太哲人奇思妙想的奧秘世界 一個竊賊變成聖人,最後因一次羞辱而死亡; 一個智者燒毀自己的世界,卻是為了拯救它; 一個男人為了探索宇宙的起源,迷失自己的心智; 一個美麗女子對抗弟弟與丈夫的自尊,卻是為了保護他們的家人…… 這些故事裡的聖賢、哲人,就算德性甚高,依舊會像常人般犯錯。 然而,一個人的缺點可能和其成就一樣有價值,甚至更有價值。 各界頂尖人士如愛因斯坦、巴菲特、洛克菲勒……等人齊聲推崇的《塔木德》,是無數人想一窺堂奧的猶太聖典。然而,《塔木德》厚達五千多頁,卷帙浩繁、內容複雜,若想逐字閱讀,對沒有受過學術訓練的讀者來說,無疑是個艱鉅的挑戰。 在本書中,作者另闢新徑,以敘事者的深刻洞察力爬梳了幾則耐人尋味的《塔木德》故事,聚焦於《塔木德》裡的傳奇拉比生活,從中擷取歷久彌新的思維。他將散佈在整部《塔木德》的一系列故事整合成連貫的敘述,以小說家的視角加以分析和解釋。 在作者的詮釋與個人讀法中,這神聖的文本經常違反傳統的虔誠觀念,這些故事有的狂野、有的粗魯、有的甚至帶有情欲色彩,但它們追求的是一種可持續的超越,也就是能夠融合塵世生活的平凡時刻與聖潔奇蹟的宇宙意識的一種方式。 作者在書中明辨這些故事的主題和思想脈絡,扮演銜接的橋樑,將《塔木德》的千年故事帶入現代生活,引領讀者進入這座數千年的古老智慧寶庫。 【專家推薦】 陳建民│亞洲大學外文系教授 曾宗盛│台灣神學院舊約學副教授 張守慧│文藻外語大學歐亞語文學院院長 【各界好評】 本書的文體相當奇特,是現代小說家採用了古代的猶太辯論法,以十分詭異的非理性邏輯、蒙太奇跳接式的情節思索,探討一件件的人生事情,其結論往往指向人性的忠貞與堅強,藉此展現小小人類對人生與上帝的尊重。 ——陳建民,亞洲大學外文系教授 在閱讀時,讀者或許會發現自己像是追逐兔子的愛麗絲,掉入深井中,進入一趟奇幻漫遊,在喜怒哀樂的生命旅程中,親身經歷心靈洗滌。 ——曾宗盛,台灣神學院舊約學副教授 本書充滿創意,內容廣博又不失俏皮,用清晰和智慧照亮了塔木德故事的個性與特質。 ——大衛.華而普(David...
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