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Author Dan Jacobson (born 1929) used his experiences as a child growing up in South Africa to mold his writings about human nature.Dan Jacobson was born March 7, 1929, in Johannesburg, South Africa, w...
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Born in South Africa in 1929, Dan Jacobson writes strikingly about his homeland. A pioneer in South African fiction, he has won praise for his work on this and other subjects from critics and a certai...
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Writer, critic, and teacher Dan Jacobson's writing seems haunted, both by his South African origins and by his Jewish heritage. A pioneer in South African fiction, he has written strikingly about his ...
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In his career as a novelist, short-fiction writer, and essayist, Dan Jacobson once remarked, he had gone around the course twice. At this point in his prolific career it would be more exact to say tha...
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Critical Essay by Simon Raven
Mr. Jacobson [in The Price of Diamonds] presents his people with subtlety and intelligence, carefully sets them down in an unappetising South African township, and then, ...
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Critical Essay by A. Alvarez
Violence makes a strange ending for a love story, even if the setting is South Africa. But because Dan Jacobson has the ability to create sensitive, intelligent people and...
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Critical Essay by Granville Hicks
I have had a feeling all along that some day Jacobson would write a "big" novel, big in scope. Some fiction writers do better with small canvases, and t...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Dunn
Childhood is frequently thought of as the staple source of the short story writer's inspiration. Standard themes of short stories are the conversion of childhood ...
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Critical Essay by Tom Paulin
[The] Republic of Sarmeda is located somewhere outside the geography of history. It is the setting of Dan Jacobson's The Confessions of Josef Baisz, an account of a...
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Critical Essay by Katha Pollitt
For all the grimness of its subject, Dan Jacobson's facility of invention makes [The Confessions of Josef Baisz] a surprisingly lighthearted book. He obviously h...
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Critical Essay by Dean Flower
Jacobson's austere narrative [The Confessions of Josef Baisz] follows out with the clarity of a syllogism its chilling logic. As a newly-conscripted soldier, Josef...
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Dan Jacobson
Dan Jacobson
Critical Essay by Simon Raven
