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Alan L. Berger (born November 16, 1939) is an American scholar, writer and professor of Judaic Studies and Holocaust studies at the Florida Atlantic University. He occupies the Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University and is director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence After Auschwitz.
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Often described as a satire or parody of the western genre, the book is a modern example of picaresque fiction. Berger made use of a large volume of overlooked first-person primary materials, such as diaries, letters, and memoirs, to fashion a wide-ranging and entertaining tale that comments on alienation, identity, and perceptions of reality. [2]
In Berger's studies, religion was found to be increasingly marginalized by the increased influence of the trend of secularization. Berger identified secularization as happening not so much to social institutions, such as churches, due to the increase of the separation of church and state, but applying to "processes inside the human mind" producing "a secularization of consciousness."
In a 1980 newspaper interview, Berger said of Neighbors, "As my 10th novel, begun at the close of my 20th year as a published novelist, it is appropriately a bizarre celebration of whatever gift I have, the strangest of all my narratives . . . the morality of this work, like that of all my other volumes, will be in doubt until the end of the ...
Radio Boys was the title of three series of juvenile fiction books published by rival companies in the United States in the 1920s: Grosset & Dunlap - authored by "Allen Chapman", a Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym - 13 titles. The best known, and biggest seller of the three series: The Radio Boys' First Wireless or Winning the Ferberton Prize
The novel was long listed for the Booker Prize. [3] [4] In a positive review in The New York Times, writer Leah Hager Cohen praises the novel's unconventional narrative.With the letters sent from A'ida to Xavier being suggested as not being in chronological order, with their contents possibly written in code and with certain parts of the letters being illegible; Cohen states that "Berger the ...
Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel is a 1978 novel by American author Thomas Berger.Berger offers his own take on the legends of King Arthur, from the heroic monarch's inauspicious conception, to his childhood in bucolic Wales, his rise to the throne, his discovery of the great sword Excalibur, his establishment of the Knights of the Round Table, his long and honorable reign, and his heroic death ...