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- Title
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Saviour: Richlere's Picaro Messiahs.
- Authors
Majer, Krzysztof
- Abstract
This article points out that the late novelist Mordecai Richler was one of the writers who drew their inspiration from religion. He believes that Richler's novels "St. Urbain's Horseman" and "Solomon Gursky Was Here" are ironic rendition of the messianic myth which is a motif in Jewish writing. An overview of the religious background of Richler is provided. His estrangement from his native religion was illustrated in his 1994 part-memoir "This Year in Jerusalem."
- Subjects
RICHLER, Mordecai, 1931-2001; INSPIRATION; RELIGION &; literature; RELIGION in literature; JEWISH literature; ST. Urbain's Horseman (Book); SOLOMON Gursky Was Here (Book); THIS Year in Jerusalem (Book)
- Publication
Canadian Literature, 2010, Issue 207, p60
- ISSN
0008-4360
- Publication type
Literary Criticism