Language:
English
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Hebrew Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
59 (2018) 301-314
Keywords:
Goldberg, Leah, Language
;
Goldberg, Leah, Criticism and interpretation
;
Reality in literature
Abstract:
This article offers an intertextual reading in Leah Goldberg’s diaries and her first book, מכתבים מנסיעה מדומה (Letters from an imaginary journey, 1937). While also referring to her late book פגישה עם משורר (Encounter with a poet, 1951), the article closely follows Goldberg’s complex, evolving poetic position regarding the language of realist literature. The texts are read from a melancholic perspective—showing how Goldberg’s poetic position as a prose writer accommodates a radical ontological insight about the relationship between human consciousness and external reality—or, in her own words “the real.” Alongside the refusal of the outside world and withdrawal inward that powerfully dominate her early work, Leah Goldberg reveals how the melancholic consciousness is profoundly tied to the world and manages to communicate its concealed aspects.
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