Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art

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In presenting Ozick as a comedian of ideas, Sarah Blacher Cohen has raised the study of Ozick to a new level. - Alan L. Berger. [Cohen] understands Ozick's hybrid conception of human nature, her realization that the secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow and that the ironic mode ...is the best way of telling the truth. - Daniel Walden. Bringing to bear insights from Jewish, literary, and cultural studies, Sarah Blacher Cohen sheds new light on the works of one of America's foremost writers. Arguing persuasively that Ozick's fiction is a form of comedy, Cohen interweaves religion and literature, skillfully illuminating the complex relationship between the comic and the sacred. Where others have emphasized Ozick's intellectualism and Jewish learning, Cohen foregrounds whimsicality, grotesque realism, irony, satire, and exuberance as the defining characteristics of Ozick's art in such works as "Trust", "The Cannibal Galaxy", "The Messiah of Stockholm", "The Pagan Rabbi", and the "Puttermesser" stories.