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Howard Jacobson è uno scrittore, romanziere e umorista britannico, conosciuto specialmente nei paesi anglofoni come saggista, giornalista e conduttore televisivo, particolarmente noto per lo stile umoristico e la vena comica dei suoi romanzi, che hanno spesso come soggetto storie di ebrei inglesi.

Jacobson è autore di dieci romanzi e di quattro raccolte di saggi e articoli. È editorialista del quotidiano The Independent. Kalooki Nights, il suo primo libro tradotto in italiano ha vinto il JQ Wingate Prize del 2007. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Agosto 1942
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Howard Jacobson: Frasi in inglese

“How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?”

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Howard Jacobson libro The Finkler Question

Origine: The Finkler Question

“In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.”

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Origine: Coming from Behind (1983), Ch. 3

“Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.”

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Redback (1986) p. 29.

“All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?”

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Interviewed in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;$sessionid$FUVRY4DIEVBSTQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/arts/2003/04/27/bojac27.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/04/27/bomain.html

“In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.”

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Origine: Coming from Behind (1983), Ch. 1

“I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.”

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Interviewed for Nextbook, September 14, 2004. http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=51

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