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Summary: Harold Fisch explores the biblical influence on the style and structure of landmark works by Fielding, Defoe, George Eliot, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others. Kafkas's The Trial has been termed a 'midrash' on the book of Job (Northrop Frye). But Fisch concludes that it is also a debate with Job. Whilst the great novelists could not manage without the Bible, at the same time 'it would not do'. The book concludes with two groundbreaking chapters on the Israeli novelists S.Y. Agnon and A.B. Yehoshua. |
