Ozick, Cynthia. <br/><br/>
The din in the head :  essays / 
Cynthia Ozick. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Co.,  2006. 
 - x, 243 p. :  ill. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>On discord and desire -- What Helen Keller saw -- Young Tolstoy : an apostle of desire -- John Updike : Eros and god -- Throwing away the clef : Saul Bellow's Ravelstein -- Washington Square : so many absent things -- Smoke and fire : Sylvia Plath's journals -- Kipling : a postcolonial footnote -- Delmore Schwartz : the willed abortion of the self -- Lionel Trilling and the buried life -- Tradition and (or versus) the Jewish writer -- Henry James, Tolstoy, and my first novel -- Highbrow blues -- The din in the head -- The rule of the bus -- Isaac Babel : "Let me finish" -- In research of lost time -- The heretical passions of Gershom Scholem -- And god saw literature, that it was good : Robert Alter's version- -- An (unfortunate) interview with Henry James. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780618470501 0618470506 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005016102 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN771  / .O98 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.04