Shattered vessels :: memory, identity, and creation in the work of David Shahar /

David Shahar (1926-1997), author of the seven-novel sequence The Palace of Shattered Vessels, occupies an ambiguous position in the Israeli literary canon. Often compared to Proust, Shahar produced a body of work that offers a fascinating poetic and ideological alternative to the dominant models of...

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1. Verfasser: Ginsburg, Michal Peled, 1947-
Weitere Verfasser: Ron, Moshe
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2004.
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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Zusammenfassung:David Shahar (1926-1997), author of the seven-novel sequence The Palace of Shattered Vessels, occupies an ambiguous position in the Israeli literary canon. Often compared to Proust, Shahar produced a body of work that offers a fascinating poetic and ideological alternative to the dominant models of Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua. This book, the first full-length study of this fascinating author, takes a fresh look at the uniqueness of his literary achievement in both poetic and ideological terms. In addition to situating Shahar within the European literary tradition, the book reads Shahar's representation of Jerusalem in his multi-volume novel as a "heterotopia"--an actual space where society's unconscious (what does not fit on its ideological map) is materially present--and argues for the relevance of Shahar's work to the critical discussion of the Arab question in Israeli culture.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 189 pages) : maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index.
ISBN:1423739280
9781423739289
9780791459195
0791459195
9780791459201
0791459209