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- The Second Scroll is a 1951 novel by the Jewish-Canadian writer A. M. Klein. Klein's only novel was written after his pilgrimage to the newly founded nation of Israel in 1949. It concerns the quest for meaning in the post-Holocaust world, as an unnamed narrator, a Montreal journalist, editor, poet and Zionist, who traveled to the State of Israel soon after its founding, searches for his long-lost uncle, Melech Davidson, a Holocaust survivor, in post-war Italy, Morocco, and Israel. Klein's novel parallels the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt, with the modern Jewish immigration to Israel after the war being compared to the original Exodus story. It is arranged in "books" (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy), with each book loosely based on its equivalent from the Torah, and in the Jewish Talmudic tradition, several glosses further the ideas of each book at the end of the novel. The novel incorporates modes from poetry, drama and prayer, and contains elements of metafiction. The novel's protagonist travels to Israel, seeking "a new revelation of God’s purpose in the world," the "second scroll” of the title, and finds not a new revelation, but a new people being created: "In the streets, in the shops, everywhere about me I had looked but had not seen. It was all there all the time — the fashioning folk, anonymous and unobserved, creating word by word, phrase by phrase, the total work that when completed would stand as the epic revealed." According to Cynthia Ozick, The Second Scroll tells of a reborn Israel in language that is “Influenced yet liberated by Joyce, forged in the laboratory of the English language as it exerts all its fathomless force, immersed simultaneously in Bible, Hebrew, Jerusalem and 20th-century history, this prophetically intricate work is the antithesis of what we have come to expect of the so-called — and largely secular — Jewish-American novel. (Think not Roth but Blake.)” The book was translated into French as Le Second rouleau by Charlotte and Robert Melancon, who won the Quebec Governor General's Award for their translation. (en)
- 《제2의 책》(The Second Scroll)은 의 1951년 소설이다. 나치스에 의한 박해로부터 이스라엘 국가건설에 이르기까지 유대민족의 고난의 역사를, 주인공이 행방불명된 숙부 메레크 데이비드슨을 찾아낸다는 소설형식을 빌어 묘사한 것이다. 저자의 뜨거운 신앙과 강렬한 현실감각이 농축(濃縮)된 시와 같은 문체와 어울려 캐나다 문학사상 가장 격조 높은 작품으로 평가된다. 작품 제명(題名)은 '제1의 책'인 구약성서(聖書)와의 대비를 의식하여 지어진 이름이다. 이 문서에는 다음커뮤니케이션(현 카카오)에서 GFDL 또는 CC-SA 라이선스로 배포한 글로벌 세계대백과사전의 "제2의 책" 항목을 기초로 작성된 글이 포함되어 있습니다. (ko)
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- 《제2의 책》(The Second Scroll)은 의 1951년 소설이다. 나치스에 의한 박해로부터 이스라엘 국가건설에 이르기까지 유대민족의 고난의 역사를, 주인공이 행방불명된 숙부 메레크 데이비드슨을 찾아낸다는 소설형식을 빌어 묘사한 것이다. 저자의 뜨거운 신앙과 강렬한 현실감각이 농축(濃縮)된 시와 같은 문체와 어울려 캐나다 문학사상 가장 격조 높은 작품으로 평가된다. 작품 제명(題名)은 '제1의 책'인 구약성서(聖書)와의 대비를 의식하여 지어진 이름이다. 이 문서에는 다음커뮤니케이션(현 카카오)에서 GFDL 또는 CC-SA 라이선스로 배포한 글로벌 세계대백과사전의 "제2의 책" 항목을 기초로 작성된 글이 포함되어 있습니다. (ko)
- The Second Scroll is a 1951 novel by the Jewish-Canadian writer A. M. Klein. Klein's only novel was written after his pilgrimage to the newly founded nation of Israel in 1949. It concerns the quest for meaning in the post-Holocaust world, as an unnamed narrator, a Montreal journalist, editor, poet and Zionist, who traveled to the State of Israel soon after its founding, searches for his long-lost uncle, Melech Davidson, a Holocaust survivor, in post-war Italy, Morocco, and Israel. (en)
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