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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808142403321

Autore

Ginsburg Michal Peled <1947->

Titolo

Shattered vessels : memory, identity, and creation in the work of David Shahar / / Michal Peled Ginsburg and Moshe Ron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7914-8600-1

1-4237-3928-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 189 pages) : maps

Collana

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

RonMoshe

Disciplina

892.4/36

Soggetti

Hebrew literature - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Flirting with the uncanny The eyes of a woman in (and out of) love: creation, painting, and betrayal in Shahar's fiction Shahar's Jerusalem Otherness, identity, and place Remembering proust

Sommario/riassunto

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.