Sentient dogs, liberated rams, and talking asses: Agnon's biblical zoo : or rereading Tmol shilshom
The conclusion of Tmol shilshom is as satisfying as the climax of a Wagnerian opera or a Cecil B. De Mille movie. There is human sacrifice and there are claps of thunder and torrents of rain and cosmic evidence of divine wrath expended and placated. Nor does the novel's melodramatic end fail to...
| Другие заглавия: | Research Article |
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
[2004]
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AJS review
Год: 2004, Том: 28, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 105-136 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Written narratives
B Narrative modes B Zionism B Utopian fiction B Novels B Perfection B Narrators B Riddles |
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| Итог: | The conclusion of Tmol shilshom is as satisfying as the climax of a Wagnerian opera or a Cecil B. De Mille movie. There is human sacrifice and there are claps of thunder and torrents of rain and cosmic evidence of divine wrath expended and placated. Nor does the novel's melodramatic end fail to satisfy its hyberbolic beginning: Isaac Kumer the naif, whose inflated dream of Zion carried the seeds of its own destruction, is bitten by a mad dog and sacrificed on the altar of the most primitive version of Jewish theodicy. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009404000078 |
