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...People drank a lot of beer, and I wasn’t into that,” Dara Horn ’99 explained to the crowd at Wordsworth Books two Thursdays ago. Horn, a former literature concentrator, current GSAS student and head teaching fellow for last year’s core “Literature and Arts A48: The Modern Jewish Experience,” recently published In the Image, a novel she wrote while studying for a year in Cambridge...
...Horn was named a Harvard-Cambridge scholar, granting her a post-commencement “year of grace” to pursue any academic subject she desired. Without the rigors of collegiate life and unattracted by the pub scene, Horn found herself with lots of free time. Already an accomplished non-fiction writer—in addition to her position as a columnist for The Crimson, she has written for Time, Newsweek and Science—Horn discovered fiction through boredom...
...Horn left Cambridge with an M.Phil in modern Hebrew and the beginnings of In the Image, a novel that strives to demonstrate how secular American culture is infused with Judaic traditions of language and thought. The book is modeled thematically and linguistically on the Book of Job, in which a holy man curses God after suffering numerous losses...
...scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Horn is naturally interested in Jewish languages. She explains that even modern secular texts in these languages cannot elude their Biblical associations. In her novel, Horn strives to endow her English prose with this same Biblical force, merging the secular and religious in the story of a modern Job whose life’s obsession—taking snapshots of ancient religious sites—is destroyed during a hurricane...
This did not present a problem. That night, the crowd— fresh-faced and soft-butch, sporting horn-rimmed glasses and carefully bedraggled coiffures—was frequently reduced to whispers amid thundering drum solos, only to be thrust back into blissful tumult by exploding guitars and vocals...