Godina izdanja: 1985
ISBN: 978-0-552-99169-4
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

God Knows (Black Swan S.) Paperback – 15 November 1985, by Joseph Heller (Author)

Product details
Publisher: ‎ Black Swan; New edition (15 November 1985)
Language: ‎ English
Paperback: ‎ 448 pages
Item Weight: ‎ 378 g

Joseph Heller`s powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you`ve never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon - now meet David as he really was - A the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller.

Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall`s magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven.

Džozef Heler, američki pisac (New York, 1. V. 1923 – New York, 13. XII. 1999). Ratni pilot u II. svjetskom ratu, poslije novinar i predavač književnosti. Njegov prvi roman Kvaka-22 (Catch-22, 1961), o zbivanjima u ratnoj zrakoplovnoj postrojbi, jedno je od najznačajnijih i najranijih djela američkoga postmodernizma: spojem apsurda, nihilizma, apokaliptičkih vizija, crnoga humora, paradoksa i slobodne jezične igre steklo je kultni status, a naslov mu je postao engleski kolokvijalizam za označavanje zamršena problema. Slijedili su: roman Nešto se dogodilo (Something Happened, 1974), pesimistični prikaz općeg osjećaja krivnje i međusobnoga sumnjičenja likova, Čovjek vrijedan zlata (Good as Gold, 1979), satira židovsko-američke proze i života u Washingtonu, te Sam Bog zna (God Knows, 1984), strukturiran kao monolog biblijskoga junaka Davida u suvremenom američkome žargonu.
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