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Cynthia Ozick Quarrel and Quandary. Alfred A. Knopf, 247 pages, $25

Cynthia Ozick is keenly alert to the sometimes uneasy tension in literature between reality and fiction, history and imagination, and she doesn't shy away in the least from bringing moral judgments to bear in discussing this tension. Politics alone do not account for her fervid interest in these subjects. In her "Forethoughts" Ozick lays out her view of the essay's purpose, a discussion she further elaborates in "She: Portrait of the Essay as a Young Body." 

 
   If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an 
   opinion in it, you need not trust it for the long nm. ...

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