Two Roads to the Land: A Contiguous Reading of Two Anti-War Novels by Avigdor Hameiri and M. Y. Ben-Gavriêl
Abstract
Drawing on Dan Miron’s concept of “literary contiguity,” this article arranges an encounter between two documentary novels about the experience of the First World War, both told from the perspective of a Jewish officer. Although rather different with regard to their place in the Modern Hebrew canon, the well-known novel The Great Madness (1929) by Avigdor Hameiri and the unknown novel Gold in the Streets (1946) by M. Y. Ben-Gavriêl reveal numerous topical and aesthetic intersections when read alongside each other. The joint analysis shows that besides their pacifism and general criticism of the logic of the nation-state, both novels share a common geographical and ideological trajectory. Their interpretation of the events depicted during the “Great War” envisages the Land of Israel as the ultimate destination of their protagonists.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- “Much More than just another Private Collection”: The Schocken Library and its Rescue from Nazi Germany in 1935
- Locating the Jewish Future: The Restoration of Looted Cultural Property in Early Postwar Europe
- From Breslau to Wrocław: Transfer of the Saraval Collection to Poland and the Restitution of Jewish Cultural Property after WWII
- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
- Reading The Magic Mountain in Arizona: Susan Sontag’s Reflections on Thomas Mann
- Two Roads to the Land: A Contiguous Reading of Two Anti-War Novels by Avigdor Hameiri and M. Y. Ben-Gavriêl
- Ein vergessenes Kapitel jüdischer Diplomatie: Richard Lichtheim in den Botschaften Konstantinopels (1913–1917)
- Hebrew, Jewishness, and Love: Translation in Gershom Scholem’s Early Work
- The Exile of Metaphysics: Adorno and the Language of Political Experience
- „Der Ewige“ als „Synthese“ des Stern. Der Gebrauch des Gottesnamens „der Ewige“ bei Franz Rosenzweig
