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- Title
ORLY CASTEL-BLOOM AND YOEL HOFFMANN: ON ISRAELI POSTMODERN PROSE FICTION.
- Authors
Shiffman, Smadar
- Abstract
Postmodern Israeli prose fiction is a cluster of rather different novels and short stories, representing different poetics and ideological stances. Yet these different "postmodernisms" have something in common: the tendency to cling to some kind of narrative and meaning. The two writers discussed in this paper, Orly Castel-Bloom and Yoel Hoffmann, represent the "disintegrated" or "unraveled" prose fiction, characteristic of postmodernist writing. A few examples of these writers' fiction will illustrate that Israeli postmodernism, even when it deconstructs the collective narrative or the meta-narrative, doesn't actually give up the attempt, desperate as it may be, to cling onto the narrative and the promise of a meaning embodied in it.
- Subjects
ISRAELI fiction; POETICS; POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy); PROSE literature; CASTEL-Bloom, Orly; HOFFMANN, Yoel
- Publication
Hebrew Studies, 2009, Vol 50, p215
- ISSN
0146-4094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hbr.2009.0013