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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 293-314 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Hebrew Studies |
| Volume | 52 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2011 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- History
- Religious studies
- Literature and Literary Theory