A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

Prochnik creates a nonfiction Bildungsroman of one of the twentieth century's most important humanist thinkers, while also telling a n intimate story of his own youth, marriage and spiritual quest in Jerusalem.In Stranger in a Strange Land, Prochnik revisits the li fe and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once prominent reputation, as a Freud-like interpreter of the inner world of the Cosmos, has b een in eclipse in the United States. He vividly conjures Scholems upbringing in Berlin, and compellingly brings to life Scholems t ransformat...[Llegir més]