";s:4:"text";s:9022:"I really enjoy the Hogarth series (the conceit is that a well-known author adapts one of Shakespeare's plays to modern times) and this was no exception, although Howard Jacobson and I usually don't get on. Belmont, which functions as a haven in the play, is absent from the novel, where everything is smeared with the same tawdriness. As a gentile, I found the exploration of Jewishness thought provoking and educational. Shylock’s were deep ponds of pitted umber, like old oil paint that had somehow—not by restoration, more by inadvertent rubbing—regained its sheen. There’s a touch of Woody Allen in Strulovitch: an artsy neurotic weirdly obsessed with his own teenage daughter, Beatrice. About the only strand that remains is the issue of racism. Shakespearean retelling - leaving the plot behind. "For me personally… there is no now," he informs Strulovitch. The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste review: why on earth is this shortlisted for the Booker? And who better than a comic writer who happens to be Jewish in tackling this comedy which stars a Jew, called Shylock? So what was it Gentiles saw that told them they were both Jews? That Old Country Music This book is another entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, the retelling of Shakespeare's classic tales by modern writers. [Shylock Is My Name] is a moving, disturbing and compelling riposte to the blithe resolution offered in the urtext." This was his second such award and I expected a livelier and wittier display than this second outing provided. Conceived to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the Hogarth Shakespeare project promises "retold" versions of the playwright's works by contemporary novelists. Strulovitch looked long into his guest’s fierce, melancholy eyes. The book’s prose is well wrought and its plot enjoyably twisty. We shall take it on the chin and be grateful. by Rupert Everett, review: a candid Freed from having to keep in mind who each character is in relation to the others, the second read allows me to just immerse myself in the writing and the marvellously funny, sharp, penetrating dialogues that always seems to reveal layers of meaning within the human and relational themes. I found the premise intriguing and the writing is elegant, although at times the storyline and parallels to Shakespeare struck me as confusing. Having only a partial sense of the Merchant of Venice story - alright, I confess to not having read it (although I did once watch the latter half of the Pacino/Shylock film version!) Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2017. The representation of Shylock in the novel is also not quite what you'd expect. Shylock Is My Name is both a retelling of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and a sequel to it. Please try again. But they will likely be disappointed to discover that all the other characters are little more than the two-dimensional placeholders of a farce. If you like Howard Jacobson, you won't be dissapointed. Jacobson proves that one can work unchained from one’s source material and create something unique while remaining true its original themes. Shylock takes note of the change between Shakespeare’s time and ours and muses, “Christians are so anxious to accommodate the modern…. If this heavy-handed satire were all there was to Jacobson's version, it would be forgettable stuff, but it's only half the book. He’s distracted from her rebellion, however, by the strange new friend he’s made. Jacobson’s counterpart to Shylock, a Jewish art collector named Simon Strulovitch, doesn’t seem very surprised when he runs into the original Shylock in a graveyard: “Of course Shylock is here, among the dead. But in the end it becomes a bit of a one-note song, however fine the prose. While Shakespeare’s play is about a conflict between Christians and a Jew, Gratan’s friends are merely gentiles, not Christians. Warning: May contain spoilers. They don’t know whether to cry for me, disown me, or explain me.” A fascinating trilemma, but in Shakespeare’s hands the story was full of characters who raise such profound questions. Moving to a Rust Belt town taught me that real solidarity is harder than it looks. 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In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Or is it the ambivalent fascination many Jews feel toward the character that keeps him wandering this world, as passages like the following one might suggest? Strulovitch is constantly observing Shylock, never quite sure if he fears or envies the other Jew. Shakespeare produced his play in a Christian England from which Jews were banned, and may well never have met a Jewish person at all. Published in the December 16, 2016 issue: Mass demonstrators want to re-legitimize, reconstruct, and reconfigure Chile’s political foundation. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2017. It was perhaps inevitable that he would end up with Merchant of Venice in the Hogarth enterprise. But Beatrice has other ideas, and her adolescence is a furious sequence of sexual captures and recaptures which culminate in her making the acquaintance of a local celebrity, the heiress and TV host Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra a Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever Christine Shalcross, Plury for short. When hasn’t he been?” Strulovitch is there to visit the grave of his mother; Shylock is there for his wife Leah. I have had occasion to remark in this forum before about my apparent inability to learn from experience and my consequent tendency to persevere with authors despite evidence suggesting that I do not like their work. It hung in the air of the council chamber like a malign presence.” D’Anton is a Wildean aesthete who enjoys using refined mockery to make outsiders aware of their status. One of the most unsettling things about The Merchant of Venice has always been the blackand-white realness of Shylock: compared to the cast of logic-chopping Venetian fops and courtiers, with their party games and cross-dressing stage trials, he comes across as a creature of monolithic sincerity and intent. I will be revenged on the whole pack of you. **. immortal, they keep up a lively conversation in any graveyard or garden Shylock visits. Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare). It's a literary novel. To the memory of Wilbur Sanders. S HYLOCK IS MY NAME by Howard Jacobson 288PP, Hogarth, £16.99, ebook £9.99. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Irascible, eloquent Shylock, who answers the door, sends back the spider crab linguine in a restaurant and requests "Bach or George Formby" on the stereo, is simply a man transplanted from the play to the present. Jacobson has rather cornered the market in serious Jewish fiction, including humorous fiction. - I came to buy this novel purely on the strength of my longstanding enjoyment of Howard Jacobson's work, both his novels and his weekly column in the Indy. "What other explanation would satisfy an unbeliever such as you? Name. Jacobson's two central characters, the "traditional Jew" Shylock and the more secular Jew Strulovich create an interesting dialogue into the question of Jewishness in contemporary society. Shylock and Strulovitch agree: “no joke is kindly meant.” A barrage of circumcision jokes clue us in to the strange course the plot will take. Please email comments to [email protected] and join the conversation on our Facebook page. Especially since it is set in a school. It's here, in these juicy, intemperate, wisecracking squabbles, that Jacobson really communicates with Shakespeare's play, teasing out the lacunae, quietly adjusting its emphases (there's little about finance here, but a lot about family) and making startlingly creative use of the centuries-old playscript. ";s:7:"keyword";s:26:"shylock is my name summary";s:5:"links";s:3046:"Postman's Knock Party Game,
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