Name Robert Majzels Role Novelist | Education Concordia University | |
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Books Apikoros Sleuth, City of forgetting, Hellman's scrapbook | ||
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Robert Majzels (born May 12, 1950) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright and translator.
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Life
Majzels was born in Montreal. In 1986, he graduated with a Master's degree in English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal, where he would later teach creative writing for thirteen years. Between 2000 and 2002, he lived in Beijing, China and studied Chinese. He currently lives in Calgary, Alberta in Canada and teaches at the University of Calgary.
Works
Majzels is strongly influenced by critical and literary theory. His works explore both the limits of language and narrative forms and their ethical repercussions. His novels highlight the artificiality of Western literary language, especially its linearity, archetypal narratives, and the ways in which it works to establish characters as believable personae (characterization). Concurrently, they explore other, neglected forms of literary expression. For example, Apikoros Sleuth experimented with a Talmudic form, noted for its polyphonic, discursive, and digressive qualities.