Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mordecai Richler's death on July 3, 2001 marked the end of an era in Canadian Jewish literary life. The major figures of the postwar era were by this point largely silent or gone, with the exception of Leonard Cohen, whose international renown as a singer and songwriter far outweighs his reputation as a novelist and poet. In his final years Richler attained major successes, including Canada's Giller Prize for fiction forBarney's Versionin 1997, and the remarkable popularity of that novel in Italy, where the wordRichleriano –denoting a certain knowing disregard for political correctness – entered the Italian vocabulary. Richler and his work became iconic, an ascendancy to national acclaim and popularity that represented a transformation of his reputation in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, when he published such major novels asSt. Urbain's Horseman(1971),Joshua Then and Now(1980), andSolomon Gursky Was Here(1989), alongside the provocative polemicOh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country(1992). Despite winning three Governor General's Awards – forSt. Urbain'sin 1971, and for bothCocksureandHunting Tigers under Glassin 1968 – Richler's reception in Canada throughout this period was colored by responses to his early writings, whose particular brand of satiric humor alienated sections of his audience. Following the appearance of Richler's autobiographical 1955 novelSon of a Smaller Hero, this alienation was most commonly expressed by his Jewish Montreal‐based detractors, who felt exposed and ridiculed by Richler's portrayal of them. And though critics and reviewers largely embraced his return to these themes inThe Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz(1959), this breakthrough book cemented the rift between writer and readers that would account for a longstanding love‐hate relationship.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.112 | 0.038 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".