Short Stories : : Collected Works of A.M. Klein / / ed. by M.W. Steinberg, A.M. Klein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Klein, A.M. ,; Steinberg, M.W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [1983]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 1983
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)

A.M. Klein's reputation as a writer on his poetry and to a lesser extent on his remarkable poetic novel The Second Scroll. But he also wrote many short stories over a period of more than a quarter of a century. Until now few people have been aware of their existence; many exist only in manuscript form, and most of those that were published appeared in magazines that were not readily accessible to the general reading public. This volume bring them together. Klein's range of themes and styles in his short fiction, as in his poetry and in his journalistic writing, is broad. He draws on his Jewish experience, focusing on legends, festivals, and ceremonies, well-known character types, and familiar aspects of Jewish life – in the synagogue, in the home, and on the streets. Klein was not limited, however, by his Jewish concerns, for he also wrote social and political satire and parodies of the detective story and of literary debates. His pervasive sense of humour is often closely associated with his feeling for the macabre, producing a quality of black comedy that is distinctly Kleinian. The stories in this volume are an invaluable addition to the canon of Klein's works and their publication will extend and reinforce his already considerable reputation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Biographical Chronology -- Epistle Theological -- Prophet in Our Midst: A Story for Passover -- By the Profit of a Beard -- The Lost Twins -- The Triumph of Zalman Tiktiner -- The Parliament of Fowles : A Short Story -- The Chanukah Dreidel -- The Meed of the Minnesinger: A Vivid Short Story Based on the Life of a Great Thirteenth-Century Poet -- Master of the Horn -- The Parrot and the Goat -- The Bald-Headed Monarch -- Too Many Princes -- Once upon a Time ... -- Shmelka -- The Seventh Scroll -- Blood and Iron A Satire on Modern German Ideology -- Friends, Romans, Hungrymen -- Beggars I Have Known -- A Myriad-Minded Man -- Whom God Hath Joined -- Yclept a Pip -- No Traveller Returns ... -- Portrait of an Executioner -- The Tale of the Marvellous Parrot -- Memoirs of a Campaigner -- Detective Story, or A Likely Story -- We Who Are About to Be Born: A Parable -- One More Utopia -- The Trail of 'Clupea Harengus' The Scientific Detective Story and How She Is Writ for Summer Reading -- Kapusitchka -- ... And It Shall Come to Pass -- And the Mome Raths Outgrabe -- Letter from Afar -- A Fable -- The Bells of Sobor Spasitula -- Textual Notes and Emendations -- Notes