Shattered Vessels: Memory, Identity, and Creation in the Work of David Shahar (SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

Ginsburg, Michal Peled,Ron, Moshe

ISBN 10: 0791459209 / ISBN 13: 9780791459201

Published by State University of New York Pre, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shattered Vessels: Memory, Identity, and Creation in the Work of David Shahar (SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
• Publisher: State University of New York Pre
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791459209
• ISBN 13: 9780791459201
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist 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 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.

About the Author

Michal Peled Ginsburg is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University. She is the author of Flaubert Writing: A Study in Narrative Strategies; Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel; and editor of Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Old Goriot. Moshe Ron is Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the translator of La Pharmacie de Platon by Jacques Derrida, as well as works by Raymond Carver and Paul Auster.