10477 Israeli Fiction in the Eighties

Credits: 6 intermediate credits in Hebrew Literature

Prerequisites: none

Recommended: At least one of the following: Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua: Early Writings, Selected Hebrew Short Stories: Early Twentieth Century, Modern Literary and Cultural Theory: An Introduction

Author: Hanna Herzig

Many new writers and new developments typify Israeli prose fiction in the eighties. The course deals mostly with already established writers who made way for a younger, present-day generation and presents a close examination of their works, which focus on the problematics of individual versus collective norms.

Topics: Introduction – the background of literary norms in the 1960s compared to the various styles of “new fiction”; Yaakov Shabtai, Past Perfect; Yehoshua Kenaz, A Musical Moment, Heart Murmur; A. B. Yehoshua, Mr. Mani; David Grossman, The Book of Intimate Grammar; Yoel Hoffmann, The Book of Yosef, Bernhardt.