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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginsburg, Michal Peled, 1947-

Contributor:

Ron, Moshe.

Series:

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shahar, David, 1926-1997--Criticism and interpretation.

Shahar, David.

Hebrew literature--20th century.

Hebrew literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 189 pages) : maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780791486009

0791486001

9781423739289

1423739280

OCLC:

62735110