TALK: Jewish Myth and Contemporary Fiction
Mark Jay Mirsky (English, City University of New York)
Wednesday, January 18 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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Does “Jewish myth” exist apart from “Biblical myth”? What characteristics of this “Jewish myth” might be found in the fiction of Robert Musil, Flann O’Brien, Harold Brodkey, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Jorge Luis Borges and Cynthia Ozick? Are Jewish and Christian myth so entangled that it is impossible to speak separately about them? Mark Jay Mirsky, a writer and founder and editor of Fiction Magazine, is Professor of English at City College of New York. His books include Diaries: Robert Musil 1899-1942; Dante, Eros, and Kabbalah; My Search for the Messiah; Studies and Wanderings in Israel and America; Blue Hill Avenue: A Novel; The Red Adam; and Absent Shakespeare.

Sponsored by The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and co-sponsored by the IHC’s Translation Studies Research Focus Group.

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