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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

novel by Richler

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Canadian literature

  • The Handmaid's Tale
    In Canadian literature: Fiction

    and Paris, Mordecai Richler’s novels The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), St. Urbain’s Horseman (1971), Joshua Then and Now (1980), Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989), and Barney’s Version (1997) satirize the condition and hypocrisy of modern society through black humour.

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discussed in biography

  • Mordecai Richler.
    In Mordecai Richler

    …with angry, confused modern heroes; The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), a bawdy and sometimes farcical account of a Jewish boy in Montreal and his transformation into a ruthless and amoral businessman, which was made into a film from his screenplay in 1974; and The Incomparable Atuk (1963), which contains…

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