Books : Aharon Appelfeld: From Individual Lament to Tribal Eternity (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Studies)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 892.436
EAN num: 9781584651406
ISBN number: 1584651407
Label: Brandeis
Manufacturer: Brandeis
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 228
Printing Date: July 01, 2001
Publishing house: Brandeis
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Aharon Appelfeld stands among the most prominent Israeli writers and is the most frequently published Israeli writer in the US. His works have received numerous prestigious literary awards in Israel as well as international critical acclaim. Yet there is a paucity of good critical writing about his impressive body of work. Yigal Schwartz's compelling study, based in part on interviews with Appelfeld himself, admirably fills this gap.
Schwartz organizes his book around three of Appelfeld's major themes: the recovery of childhood and memory, the creation of place, and the religious stance of the Holocaust writer. He discusses Appelfeld's imaginative reconstruction of his childhood, his fictional world in spatial terms, and the peculiarly Jewish notion of time and fate experienced by the characters in his novels. In addition, Schwartz develops a new perspective not only on Appelfeld's work, but on Holocaust literature per se. He sees Appelfeld as a Holocaust writerwhose underlying concerns go beyond his experiences as a Holocaust survivor to include larger issues of Jewish identity in the modern period.
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This is a very first - rate literary student of a major Israeli novelist. Schwartz tries to understand Appelfeld's search for and depiction of his own life. As he understands it Appelfeld's work even when it is autobiographical does not focus on memory of specific facts of his own life. Rather Memory for Appelfeld is a kind of reconstruction, the making of a replica of the worlds he has been a part of. Schwartz is especially effective in showing how Appelfeld often ignoring the years in which the Shoah took place writes of the years preceding and the years which come after. He shows how Appelfeld contends with the urge to remember, and the urge to forget. And how he makes a fictional reality of his own , whether it is based on the cold dark northern world of Eastern Europe, or the hot arid land of his adopted Israel.
Schwartz makes a strong case for Appelfeld as master builder and creator , the maker of a fictional world of his own which captures in essence the real worlds he has lived through.
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