Metaphors and memory. Selected essays

For the first time, a selection of essays by Cynthia Ozick, a well-known contemporary American writer and winner of many literary awards, has been offered to Ukrainian readers. This is a collage of texts included in the five main volumes of the essayist, which reflects the evolution of her literary and philosophical views. Ozik exists at the intersection of her three roles - "Rebbe, Feminist and Follower of Henry James." This collection presents texts that demonstrate all three incarnations. The choice of texts is dictated by the attempt to show as much as possible the dynamic and not very smooth dialogue between these roles, which balances between them and dictates the thematic scope of artistic and critical works of Cynthia Ozik. These incarnations also push the writer in search of symbolic language to express the new identity formed at their intersection, which had no place for her in the old literary canon. Readers will also be interested in Ozik's reflections on the fluctuations between cultural universality and national identity, as well as her examples of inquisitive but critical reading of problematic pages of cultural heritage.