Modern Hebrew Literature 3 : Culture and Conflict

by Shaked, Gershon

• ISBN13: 9781592641703
• ISBN10: 1592641709
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-28
• Publisher: Toby Pr

Summary

For over 20 years, MHL has helped English speakers keep abreast of Israel's hyper-active literary scene. Each issue includes translations of excerpts from forthcoming new novels and short stories, articles on a variety of topics, interviews with authors, and a selection of poetry and reviews of books recently published in Hebrew. This new 3rd issue, features new writing from a land in the crucible of conflict. AB Yehoshua is interviewed by the editor, and there are new works by Orly Castel Bloom, Ruth Almog, etc.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements,	iv
Introduction,	xi
IN MEMORIAM: S. YIZHAR
Gershon Shaked, S. Yizhar	1	(2)
Avirama Golan, The Elemental Yizhar,	3	(4)
New in Translation—Preliminaries (Mikdamot),	7	(8)
DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH-ONE YEAR LATER
Ory Bernstein, On Magical Thought in the Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch,	15	(16)
FICTION: EXCERPTS FROM RECENTLY PUBLISHED NOVELS
Orly Castel-Bloom, Textile,	31	(8)
Shulamit Lapid, Nunia,	39	(6)
Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy,	45	(6)
Yoram Kaniuk, Vultures,	51	(6)
Aharon Appelfeld, Blooms of Darkness,	57	(6)
Ruth Almog, Love, Natalia,	63	(8)
Eyal Megged, Woman Country,	71	(6)
Michal Zamir, A Ship of Girls,	77	(6)
Hagai Dagan, The King Has No Land,	83	(6)
Nava Semel, Isralsland,	89	(8)
Dudi Busi, Mother is Longing for Words,	97	(6)
Roee Rosen, Ziona™,	103	(6)
Orit Shaham-Gover, And Thus I Have Declared,	109	(8)
Dror Burstein, Murderers,	117	(6)
Eran Bar-Gil, Horseshoe and Violin,	123	(8)
Miron Izakson, The Flat on King Solomon Street,	131	(10)
FROM THE CLASSICS
Avigdor Hameiri, The Great Madness,	141	(8)
A STORY
Etgar Keret, Simyon,	149	(8)
INTERVIEW
Gershon Shaked interviews A.B. Yehoshua,	157	(16)
POETRY
Haim Gouri,	173	(6)
Raquel Chalfi,	179	(6)
Israel Eliraz,	185	(8)
REVIEW ESSAY
Anat Feinberg, Biblical Resonance,	193	(6)
REVIEWS
Yoram Kaniuk, Missing,	199	(2)
Reviewed by Alex Epstein
Sara Shilo, No Gnomes Will Appear,	201	(2)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Green
Lea Goldberg, There Comes the Light and Lea Goldberg's Diaries,	203	(3)
Reviewed by Anat Feinberg
Ron Leshem, If Paradise Exists,	206	(2)
Reviewed by Haya Hoffman
Raveh Sagie, All Roads,	208	(2)
Reviewed by Arik Glasner
Yehudit Kafri, Zosha,	210	(2)
Reviewed by Hanoch Bartov
Amir Gutfreund, The World, Sometime Later,	212	(3)
Reviewed by Avishag Rosenberg
Michael Schonfeld, Loss & Destination,	215	(2)
Reviewed by Hayuta Deutsch
Yael Hadaya, Eden,	217	(2)
Reviewed by Rochelle Furstenberg
SUSPENSE NOVELS
Yair Lapid, The Second Woman,	219	(1)
Reviewed by Shin Goren
Gal Amir, The Third in the Second Row,	220
Reviewed by Shin Goren