Should he fail, he risked death, for the king threatened to cut him and his friends in pieces 2. Daniel therefore needed to recreate the dream before interpreting it. The biblical character he identifies with was an interpreter of dreams for a cruel king who tended to forget his dreams. Among all the different stories composing the biblic (.)ĢDaniel Isaacson frames his narrative with The Book of Daniel: the first epigraph and the final words of the novel quote passages from the Old Testament. 2 This is Nebuchadnezzar’s threat, Chapter Two.Daniel tries to find meaning to the void left by his parents, he is on a quest for a truth that constantly eludes him for Mindish, the only witness and main accuser at his parents’ trial, is, at the time of his writing, a senile man who spends most of his time in the fairy-tale universe of Disneyland. The novel is hard to categorize for it draws on many traditions such as the Bildungsroman, the historical novel or the essay as it is supposedly Daniel’s PhD dissertation and it springs backward and forward in time from the fifties to the sixties.
Daniel’s narrative reshapes the past making central what had previously been marginalized by the dominant historical discourse. 1 Welcome to Hard Times (the western genre revisited) in 1960 and Big as Life (a science-fiction nov (.)ġIn The Book of Daniel, Doctorow’s third novel 1, published in 1971, the narrator is an orphan who tries through his narrative to rehabilitate his parents who are fictionalized re-creations of the Rosenbergs, renamed Isaacsons.
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