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'[The Second Scroll is probably the most remarkable novel ever to be written in Canada ... because of the richness of the prose which clothes it. The novel is an exposition of the inveterate and ingrained nature of Judaism and of the role of the Jew as the Suffering Servant and scapegoat of mankind.'--Robertson Davies "The Peterborough Examiner "
'[Klein writes with a sardonic humor and sense of irony that makes for a kind of bubbling laughter as a cloak of tragedy.[He is a born story-teller, a supreme verbal artist.'--Leon Edel "Compass "
'[The Second Scroll is] probably the most remarkable novel ever to be written in Canada ... because of the richness of the prose which clothes it. The novel is an exposition of the inveterate and ingrained nature of Judaism and of the role of the Jew as the Suffering Servant and scapegoat of mankind.' - Robertson Davies - The Peterborough Examiner
'Original in all respects, profoundly important and certainly a work of genius, A.M. Klein's first novel is a bold attempt at appraisal, within the narrow framework of an extended fable, of the essence of the Jewish racial soul.' - William Arthur Deacon - The Globe and Mail
'The most profoundly creative summation of the Jewish condition by a Jewish man of letters since the European catastrophe ... Intricate, beautiful, and passionate.' - Harvey Swados - The Nation
'[Klein writes with] a sardonic humor and sense of irony that makes for a kind of bubbling laughter as a cloak of tragedy.[He is a] born story-teller, a supreme verbal artist.' - Leon Edel - Compass
'[The Second Scroll is] wrought with the scrupulous care of high art, and employed for a purpose nobler ... than any other tale that resembles it in English literature, although Blake and Joyce come to mind.' - B.K. Sandwell - Saturday Night
'[The Second Scroll is] probably the most remarkable novel ever to be written in Canada ... because of the richness of the prose which clothes it. The novel is an exposition of the inveterate and ingrained nature of Judaism and of the role of the Jew as the Suffering Servant and scapegoat of mankind.'
- Robertson Davies - The Peterborough Examiner'The most profoundly creative summation of the Jewish condition by a Jewish man of letters since the European catastrophe ... Intricate, beautiful, and passionate.'
- Harvey Swados - The Nation'[Klein writes with] a sardonic humor and sense of irony that makes for a kind of bubbling laughter as a cloak of tragedy.[He is a] born story-teller, a supreme verbal artist.'
- Leon Edel - Compass"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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