Discipline: Humanities

Topic: Literature

Fiction and Reality: Genres in the Israeli Short Story

Orna Golan

This 5-volume series presents realistic and non-realistic genres in Israeli prose fiction. The genres discussed are realism, social realism, semi-realism, historical realism, didactic realism, lyrical realism, symbolic realism and fantastic realism. Each genre is exemplified through an analysis of one or more stories. The relation of fiction to reality and the reaction of Israeli society, as reflected in current criticism, are also discussed.

Volume 1 (1984, 208 pp., cat. # 10259-1)

Part 1: General introduction, Aharon Meged: “Crying” – realism

Part 2: Moshe Shamir: “Until Dawn’s Light” – social realism

Part 3: Hanoch Bartov: “The Man” – semi-realism

Volume 2 (1984, 232 pp., cat. # 10259-2)

Part 1: Moshe Shamir: “On His Horse on Saturday” – historical realism

Part 2: S. Yizhar: “The Prisoner” – didactic realism

Part 3: Benjamin Tammuz: “The Swimming Race” – didactic realism

Volume 3 (1985, 172 pp., cat. # 10259-3)

Part 1: Benjamin Tammuz: “Horizon” – lyrical realism

Part 2: S. Yizhar: “Habakuk” – lyrical realism

Volume 4 (1984, 240 pp., cat. # 10259-4)

Part 1: Yitzhak Orpaz: “Nimrod Hunting Hero” – symbolic realism

Part 2: Yitzhak Orpaz: “The Tomuzhena Street” – symbolic realism

Part 3: Yitzhak Oren: “The Resurrection Memorial” – fantastic realism

Volume 5: Yitzhak Ben-Ner: “Atalia” – lyrical realism (1986, 144 pp., cat. # 10259-5)

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