Potok's Asher Lev: Orthodoxy and Art: The Core-To-Core Paradox (My Name Is Asher Lev) (Critical Essay)
Studies in American Jewish Literature 2010, Annual, 29
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The epigraph to My Name is Asher Lev, "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth," a quote from Pablo Picasso, is a kind of metaphor, one of the controlling ideas of the book. The essential conflict is revealed in the first pages of the book: Yet, he went on, "I am an observant Jew." The result is that I am labeled
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