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	Richler, Mordecai
		A scintillating portrait of a young Montréal-Jewish entrepreneur, the novel is characterized by an energizing authorial ambivalence and a contrast between the comic and the pathetic, by rich dramatic scenes, by a lively narrative pace, and by a comprehensive depiction of the protagonist as Montréaler, Jew and individual.
		Richler's earlier novels, The Acrobats (1954), Son of a Smaller Hero (1955) and A Choice of Enemies (1957), are essentially apprenticeship pieces portraying young, intense protagonists absorbed with finding proper values in a corrupt world.
		Richler's considerable talent for the comic is displayed in The Incomparable Atuk (1963), a zany piece on Canadian nationalism, and in Cocksure (1968), a comical-satirical account of the difficulty of adhering to traditional values in a world gone mad.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0006823 (423 words)

	Mordecai Richler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Richler avoids some of the shortcomings of the earlier work: the impassioned tone is more modulated, characterization is subtler, derivative passages are all but eliminated, aesthetic distance is now evident, and the theme is not shouted at the reader.
		The narrative is occasionally melodramatic and contrived as a consequence of Richler's harnessing it to the political thesis; certain characters are wooden, again because of their overt subservience to the theme; and the unravelling of the narrative is still a bit awkward.
		Richler was still living in London at the time he wrote this novel, and perhaps his farcical style illustrates his observation about North American writers exiled in Europe: when they wrote about North America, they settled "on a style that did not betray knowledge gaps of day to day experience".
	www.ilportoritrovato.net /html/bibliorichler6.html (5496 words)

	MORDECAI_RICHLER.htm 3/Jul/2001 19:24
		Richler gets call to Order Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson presents the insignia of Companion of the Order of Canada to Florence Richler on behalf of her late husband during a ceremony at Rideau Hall yesterday.CPThe setting was about as far from the gritty back streets of Duddy Kravitz's Montreal as you can get.
		Richler's family, wife Florence and five children, say there will be a funeral service for close friends and family at the end of this week, and that they will announce the date and location of a public memorial service soon.
		Richler was a significant Quebec novelist and an ambassador for anglo-Quebec literature.
	www.wednesday-night.com /MORDECAI_RICHLER.htm (2597 words)

	Mordecai Richler Then and Now
		Another explanation would be that Mordecai Richler loves to be hated, that he's a temperamentally ill-natured writer whose art, as essayist or novelist, consists of being as offensive as possible to everyone who comes his way.
		Richler is entitled to withhold the answers until the end, but the book's temporal structure, which permits shifts without warning between any of five or six periods in Joshua's life, does seem needlessly dizzying.
		Richler is not to be blamed for being malevolent or morally unfocused or excessive.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/06/01/reviews/richler-joshua.html (1079 words)

	CNN.com - Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler dies - July 3, 2001
		Richler, who was 70, was the author of more than 10 books including "Barney's Version" and "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz." He underwent chemotherapy last week to fight cancer, for the second time in three years.
		Richler was particularly angered by Montreal's decline as an economic and social power in Canada, and the exodus of many of its English-speaking residents.
		Richler published several novels while still in his 20s but he said it was not until his fourth, "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz," that he found his voice.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/07/03/canada.richler.reut (693 words)

	Mordecai Richler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richler moved to Paris, France at age nineteen, intent on following in the footsteps of a previous generation of literary exiles.
		Mordecai Richler is interred in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.
		Richler subsequently repeated the assertion on the CBC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mordecai_Richler (1751 words)

	Mordecai Richler: an obituary tribute by Robert Fulford
		Mordecai Richler's death yesterday at the age of 70 took from our midst the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation, an abrasive but enthralling author who won an audience and a great success on precisely his own terms.
		Even when Richler lived for about two decades in England, a part of him still walked the pavements he knew as a child, and somewhere in his mental baggage he carried his growing and changing cast of characters, all of them at least distantly based on neighbours, relatives, and friends from the old days.
		Richler was always the king of the recyclers, and that night he somehow turned an old book review into a small work of comic genius.
	www.robertfulford.com /MordecaiRichler.html (1940 words)

	Mordecai Richler, 1931-2001
		Mordecai Richler, the Canadian author from Montreal, died at the age of 70 last week, on Monday July 2nd, 2001.
		Mordecai Richler was born January 27th, 1931 in Montreal, where he grew up in the Jewish community of Saint Urbain Street which is featured in many of his novels including Duddy Kravitz.
		Richler will be remembered as a novelist, a journalist and a political mind who opened the Canadian voice to the world in a time when Canadians suffered from an inferiority complex.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3586/73893 (462 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Dispatches from the Sporting Life by Mordecai Richler
		Mordecai Richler’s final book pays homage to his personal heroes and celebrates a writer’s love of sport with his trademark irascibility, humour and acuity.
		Mordecai himself chose the pieces to include in Dispatches from the Sporting Life, and together they give us an intimate portrait of a man who admired the players and prized the struggle of sport -- as much as he enjoyed skewering those who made a mockery of its principles.
		Richler combines the enthusiasm of a fan with the curiosity and insight of a first-rate reporter.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676974782 (813 words)

	Apathy, envy and the great Canadian wasteland - Mordecai Richler Was Here - CBC Archives
		In this early CBC Television interview, Richler is taken to task for a recent editorial in which he described Canada as a boring and apathetic country.
		Richler, after all, speaks from experience, having fled Montreal at age 19 for adventure overseas in Paris and Spain.
		Richler proclaimed himself an atheist at age 12, which reportedly angered his family, including his grandfather, a rabbinical scholar.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-68-753-4594/arts_entertainment/mordecai_richler/clip1 (813 words)

	Mordecai Richler (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		'''Mordecai Richler''' (January 27, 1931 - July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, scriptwriter, and essayist.
		Son of a scrapyard dealer, Richler was born and raised on St. Urbain Street in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec.
		Richler frequently said in interviews that his goal was to be a honest witness to his time and place, and to write at least one book that would be read after his death.
	mordecai-richler.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (690 words)

	billbeuttler.com - Appetite for the Absurd
		Mordecai Richler left Montreal to live in London in 1954, shortly after the publication of his first novel.
		Richler, 59, whose ninth novel, Solomon Gursky Was Here, is being released in the United States this spring (it was rushed into print early in Canada, in time for 1989 Christmas shopping), has agreed to take me on a tour of the city he has written so much about.
		Richler introduces me to his wife, Florence, who is beginning to prepare dinner and listening to opera on the radio.
	billbeuttler.com /work42.htm (4770 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Acrobats: Books: Mordecai Richler,Ted Kotcheff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In the recent televised tribute to Mordecai Richler, his New York editor and long-time friend Robert Gottlieb confessed that among his authors, Richler was unusual.
		Richler was discouraged of course but wasn't about to abandon Europe and return home defeated to the cold winters of Montreal.
		In Andre's case this guilt is brought on by an abortion and the subsequent death of a Jewish girlfriend in Montreal.
	www.amazon.ca /Acrobats-Mordecai-Richler/dp/0771034784 (1390 words)

	Review - The Acrobats by Mordecai Richler & Happiness by Will Ferguson
		Richler was never an ideologue; he distrusted hardliners on both the Left and the Right.) In fact, we can read The Acrobats as part of a life-long conversation with the self; the enduring search through a forest of ambiguity and competing demands for that ancient Holy Grail, the good life.
		Richler, perhaps the Quebec nationalists' gravest critical enemy, blessed Lucien Bouchard, who had taken Quebec to the brink of nationhood, with his own grace note.
		Richler succeeded in being the nation's brightest literary light for many years, and he did it by carving himself a place where he could create, a place where he could ask the big questions, and craft his answers into narrative.
	www.danforthreview.com /reviews/fiction/richler.htm (1781 words)

	Mordecai Richler - Northern Stars (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mordecai wrote numerous best-selling novels, a number of essays, articles and non-fiction books, and was a passionate voice in the debates over Québec’s potential separation from Canada.
		Mordecai was born on January 27, 1931 on St. Urbain Street in Montreal, and raised into a working-class Jewish family.
		Mordecai’s tenth novel, Solomon Gursky Was Here was released in 1989, the non –fiction This Year in Jerusalem was published in 1996 and his last novel Barney’s Version was published in 1997.
	www.northernstars.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /Writers/richler_bio.html (1187 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The extent to which Richler has realized his declared intentions and the degree to which he has been able to make them complement one another are appropriate gauges for a critical assessment of his four principal novels.
		I speak of a certain deconstructive energy which at times tends to undermine Richler's constructive concerns as a satirist and moralist, a de-moralizing force which it is hard not to regard as being rooted in a dark negating vision of human existence.
		One's complaint is exactly the opposite: that Richler has been too genteel to allow the lewd and the gross fully to possess his imaginative processes, come what may. To do so might lead to a discomforting shifting of the sands for a writer habituated to satirical and moral themes; but it might also be salutary.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol4_2/&filename=mcsweeney.htm (3717 words)

	Mordecai Richler: 1931-2001 by Mark Steyn
		Mordecai remembered every detail of his working-class childhood in Montreal and the rare glimpses he got of the would-be gentrified Jews in the suburbs of Outremont and Westmount, and some of those details were too funny to let go.
		Richler, whether consciously or not, was already writing for the world, his publishers, editors, and agents in London and New York pre-dating those he eventually found in Toronto: in the Fifties and Sixties, he wrote about Canada from London, distance bringing his experience into focus, sifting and sorting.
		Richler took the Wandering Jew myth and plunked it in the frozen north, placing one of the chosen on Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to the Northwest Passage in 1845.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/20/sept01/mordecai.htm (2589 words)

	Jewlicious » Blog Archive » Mordecai Richler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This link takes you to another called “Mourning Mordecai Richler” which is a fine video essay about him by the CBC around the week he passed away.
		Richler is very different from Bellow who was far more “intellectual” in his writing.
		Richler used to write in the mornings, then in the afternoon he’d go to his regular watering hole and shoot the shit with the other regulars.
	www.jewlicious.com /?p=2395 (829 words)

	A Brief Chat with Mordecai Richler
		Mordecai Richler is a man of few words -- when he is speaking, that is. He is one of those artists who would prefer his work to speak for itself.
		On the phone from his hotel room in Toronto, Richler was curt and abrupt but still had many intriguing things to say about writing.
		Mordecai Richler received a lot of recognition for his work.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_literature/33056 (477 words)

	THE UNPRANKABLE MORDECAI RICHLER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mordecai Richler, who was slumped on stage between a couple of robed Deans, had fallen soundly asleep.
		I pictured Richler in a wood cabin in the lush Quebec countryside, sipping a glass of scotch, cigar dangling from his mouth, typing up the conclusion to his greatest novel, and being suddenly interrupted by my nonsense.
		Nowhere in my predictions, however, did I anticipate the response that I in fact received from Mordecai Richler, a response that in retrospect is the only one I should have expected.
	www.gorillacartoons.com /RICHLER.htm (859 words)

	Wicked We Love (The Acrobats) by Mordecai Richler on johnwmacdonald.com
		Richler was infamous for not talking about his first novel as he acknowledged as a derivative piece of fiction and he was somewhat embarrassed by it.
		On the cover are two of the novels characters: the male (André Bennett) laying at the foot of the bed between the bed rail, arms crossed, holding two paint brushes intensely studying the right bare leg of the female (Toni).
		Dated December 19, 1967 the letter was sent from Richler's home in Hillcrest, Kingston Hill, Surrey, England at the time and written on a pre-stamped post office letter sheet.
	www.johnwmacdonald.com /wwl.html (617 words)

	Mordecai Richler: Écrivain Provocateur
		But Richler's acerbic and scatological inventiveness is fired by a secular moralism that is less obvious, though no less important, to an appreciation of his work than is his gleeful obscenity.
		For Richler, "the honourable life" appears to have meant being a devoted husband and loving father to his family of five grown children (his oldest son, Daniel, a child of his wife's first marriage, is also a novelist and television arts critic) and of writing precisely as he pleases.
		The fate of the Jews, in particular during the Holocaust, is an abiding leitmotif in Richler's work: his heroes are frequently successful men haunted by their relatively easy ride through life, too young to fight in the War, and sheltered from the horrors that afflicted fellow Jews in Europe.
	www.vehiculepress.com /montreal/writers/richler.html (1218 words)

	Jewish anti-Semite? - Mordecai Richler Was Here - CBC Archives
		Richler accepts the classification and describes his place within his culture as being alienated from and misunderstood by his parent's "synagogue generation."
		• When Mordecai Richler was growing up, his mother Lily hoped that her son might become a rabbi like her father.
		It wasn't until Richler attended Sir George Williams College that he made his first non-Jewish friends, which he explained widened his world and made him seek new boundaries abroad.
	archives.radio-canada.ca /IDC-1-74-753-4596/people/mordecai_richler/clip3 (445 words)

	Amazon.fr : Barney's Version: Livres en anglais: Mordecai Richler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Richler's sharply observed memoir-a yeasty mix of travel, reminiscence, history and political commentary-charts his odyssey from the activist Zionism of his youth in Montreal to his current belief that Israel is "the legitimate home of two peoples" and that the Israeli Jews' displacement and dispossession of native Palestinians was not justified.
		The book's centerpiece, Richler's 1992 trip to Israel amid rioting in Gaza in support of a hunger strike by more than 3000 Palestinian prisoners, culminates with a visit to a Palestinian refugee camp.
		In this predominately autobiographical work, novelist Richler (Solomon Gursky Was Here, LJ 4/1/94) focuses on his youth in Montreal in the Forties and two visits to Israel.
	www.amazon.fr /Barneys-Version-Mordecai-Richler/dp/0701162724 (562 words)

	Mordecai Richler
		Richler was not present but Knopf representative Dianne Martin, who accepted the award on his behalf, suggested that despite his celebrated grumpiness, the Montreal-based writer becomes more appealing as time goes on.
		Broadfoot said Richler's satire is brilliant, though, and there's no question he deserved the Leacock honour.
		One of Canada's most respected authors, Richler was born in Montreal in 1931.
	www.geocities.com /davidnicholson_99/Richler.htm (602 words)

	Amazon.com: Solomon Gursky Was Here: Books: Mordecai Richler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Brimming with sardonic humor, antic imagination and bravura storytelling skill, Richler's fifth novel (after Joshua Was Here) is an interlocking account of the outrageously bold and daring eponymous protagonist, and of his would-be biographer, brilliant but alcoholic Moses Berger, obsessed with discovering the mysteries of Solomon's life and--maybe--his death.
		Mordecai Richler has given us an astonishing and riveting account of one of these wanderers as he might have appeared in North America.
		Richler has again merged fantasy with reality as his account of this aspect of the Gursky family would be better spelt "Bronfman".
	www.amazon.com /Solomon-Gursky-Here-Mordecai-Richler/dp/0394539958 (2203 words)

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