Shattered Vessels: Memory, Identity, and Creation in the Work of David Shahar (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) [Hardcover]

Michal Peled Ginsburg (Author), Moshe Ron (Author)

Book Description

Series: Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture | Publication Date: June 2004

The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791459195
• ISBN-13: 978-0791459195
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,667,221 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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