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Gabriel Josipovici
British author
Also known as: Gabriel David Josipovici
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- In full:
- Gabriel David Josipovici
- Notable Works:
- “Contre-Jour”
- “Conversations in Another Room”
- “Four Stories”
- “Hotel Andromeda”
- “In a Hotel Garden”
- “In the Fertile Land”
- “Migrations”
- “Mobius the Stripper”
- “Text and Voice”
- “The Air We Breathe”
- “The Book of God”
- “The Cemetery in Barnes”
- “The Echo Chamber”
- “The Inventory”
- “The Lessons of Modernism”
- “The Mirror of Criticism”
- “The Present”
- “The World and the Book”
- “Words”
Gabriel Josipovici (born October 8, 1940, Nice, France) is a French-born British novelist, literary theorist, dramatist, and short-story writer whose work is characterized by its experimental form and its attention to language. From 1945 Josipovici was reared in Egypt. He was educated at Victoria College, Cairo, and attended Cheltenham (England) College and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (B.A., 1961). In 1963 he joined the faculty of the University of Sussex at Brighton, where he remained until retiring as professor emeritus in 1998. Josipovici laid the philosophical framework for his fiction in his books of criticism, including The World and the Book ...(100 of 279 words)