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- Title
AN EPIC OF BIRTH, SURVIVAL, AND GROWTH: PRELIMINARIES, BY S. YIZHAR.
- Authors
Ben-Dov, Nitza
- Abstract
The article traces the shared development of an individual, a people, and a universe as expressed in the eighteen episodes of Preliminaries. Each episode is a work in itself, yet at the same time, it is provisionally part of the architectural structure of the novel, which has a preface and five chapters. Each chapter (including the preface) has three episodes, a kind of triptych. The publication of the novel in 1992 came as a surprise to the Israeli reader: Yizhar had gone back to writing after thirty years of silence. The article uncovers the mode of writing and the pattern of the novel.
- Subjects
PRELIMINARIES (Book); FICTION; ISRAELI literature -- History &; criticism; LITERARY criticism; TRIPTYCHS; LITERARY theory
- Publication
Hebrew Studies, 2011, Vol 52, p293
- ISSN
0146-4094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hbr.2011.0012