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Book SynopsisDescribes author's early education, uncanny sense of vocation, and development as a literary scholar and cultural critic. This title looks back at how author's career who was influenced by his experience, at the age of nine, of being a refugee from Nazi Germany in the Kinder transport.
Trade Review"[Hartman] has written a rather different book: the record of a stellar career as a scholar, critic, and teacher that spans decades of changes in the academy to be sure, but one which insists on the primacy of the intellectual life." -Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature "Long before TV reality shows, Hartman questioned the show of reality." -The Wordsworth Circle "The journey detailed here is at once intensely personal and curiously remote." -American Book Review "Casting a critical backward glance, Hartman delineates the evolution of a life of and in learning over five remarkably productive decades." -- -Elizabeth Freund Partial Answers "A Scholar's Tale begins to unravel the mask of impersonality that allowed Hartman, a brilliant reader, to dismiss the personal dimension of literary criticism a quarter-century ago." -Southern Humanities Review "Hartman's tale doesn't disappoint." -Arcade "Hartman's unsentimental tale plots a fascinating course through a critic's mind." -Forward "In the end, what is perhaps most compelling about Professor Hartman's story is his life-long engagement with the matter of Judaism, his own complex relation to Jewish identity." -Jewish Book World "[A] lucid and intriguing autobiographical memoir." -London Review of Books
