"In the Sinai of knowledge": narrating the old/new Jewish nation in Shulamith Hareven's thirst. The desert trilogy.(Critical Essay)

From: College Literature | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Omer-Sherman, Ranen | Copyright information

The tension between divine law, the law of nature, the law of the state and the law of the individual (conscience) is of course an enduring one in world literature since at least the moment that Sophocles's Antigone first eruped on stage. With increasing emphasis, Israeli literature has evolved as a counter-narrative corpus focused on the plight of the individual, caught between a dream of justice and the often draconian consequences of state law. In Shulamith Hareven's Thirst: The...

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