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Robert Alter is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous critical works, the most recent of which is the prize-winning book The Art of Biblical Narrative.

Read More by Robert Alter:

• A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
• The Literary Guide to the Bible
• Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem