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Blocker, Joel

 
9780805201086: Israeli Stories: A Selection of the Best Contemporary Hebrew Writing
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0805201084 ISBN 13 : 9780805201086
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1965

Synopsis

A selection of the Best Writing in Israel Today

Edited by Joel Blocker, introduction by Robert Alter

The present volume of Israeli stories reassuringly illustrates the other half of a frequently asserted half-truth. Modern Hebrew literature, it is claimed, liked Yiddish literature, does not really share the large concerns of serious literary activity in the West. The Hebrew writer ordinarily does not address himself to the human situation with all of its far-reaching possibilities of tragedy of comedy, but to the Jewish situation, which is quite another thing. Consequently, Hebrew and Yiddish writers—so goes the claim—develop a system of typology rather than methods of characterization, for they are most essentially interested in the Jewish people, its particular qualities and its present fate or ultimate destiny, while the individual, who is central in other modern literatures, stands at the periphery of their vision.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A selection of the Best Writing in Israel Today

Edited by Joel Blocker, introduction by Robert Alter

The present volume of Israeli stories reassuringly illustrates the other half of a frequently asserted half-truth. Modern Hebrew literature, it is claimed, liked Yiddish literature, does not really share the large concerns of serious literary activity in the West. The Hebrew writer ordinarily does not address himself to the human situation with all of its far-reaching possibilities of tragedy of comedy, but to the Jewish situation, which is quite another thing. Consequently, Hebrew and Yiddish writers—so goes the claim—develop a system of typology rather than methods of characterization, for they are most essentially interested in the Jewish people, its particular qualities and its present fate or ultimate destiny, while the individual, who is central in other modern literatures, stands at the periphery of their vision.

Revue de presse

“These stories, with the excellent commentary, are a moving and . . . eloquent literary record of an emerging society.”
—Saturday Review
 
“The stories are uniformly good, able to stand comparison with the best being done anywhere today.”
—Library Journal

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Éditeur
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date d'édition
1965
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0805201084
ISBN 13 
9780805201086
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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