The Indelible Stamp of Reality on the Subject: David Grossman’s To the End of the Land

To the End of the Land is the first novel Grossman wrote in which the dominant consciousness is that of adults.1 As adults, especially as parents, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves is no longer an open-ended, multifarious story which can shield our fragile ego against a hostile and conform...

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Main Author: Shiffman, Smadar (Author)
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Published: The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 2013
In: Hebrew studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 359-371
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