Dan Jacobson Summary

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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,... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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, Jose... Read more