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• Trickster Ethics, Richler and King Fiddling

  From: English Studies in Canada

  Sept. 20046,914 words Critical essay [(essay date September 2004) In the following essay, Heinimann views the trickster ethic, as developed in Richler's Solomon Gursky Was Here and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water, to be representative of postmodern...

• What the Raven Said: Genealogy and Subjectivity in Mordecai Richler's Solomon Gursky Was Here

  From: Commonwealth

  Spring 20038,125 words Critical essay [(essay date spring 2003) In the following essay, Bényei examines the idea of genealogy in Solomon Gursky Was Here as a narrative "where subjectivity and the relationship between subjectivity and the world are defined."]...

• Solomon Gursky Was Here: Fiction or Fact?

  From: In Fiction and Fact in Mordecai Richler's Novels

  19928,108 words Critical essay [(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Craniford surveys the critical reaction to Solomon Gursky Was Here and investigates Richler's inspirations for the Gursky family. Craniford notes that the "most compelling...

• Canada Wry

  From: The New Republic

  May 7, 19901,791 words Critical essay [In the following review, Pearl K. Bell states that while Solomon Gursky is “the powerful hero who has been missing from Canadian fiction,” as a whole Solomon Gursky Was Here is "a long, untidy, often tedious mish-mash...

• Hopping Mad in Montreal

  From: The New York Times Book Review

  Apr. 8, 19901,231 words Critical essay The menacing black raven that swoops in and out of Mordecai Richler's inventive new novel is the familiar and totem of one Ephraim Gursky (1817–1910): Jewish Eskimo shaman, Minsk cantor, London (c. 1830) pick-pocket,...