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"A Story or a Bullet between the Eyes" Etgar Keret: Repetitiveness, Morality, and Postmodernism

"A Story or a Bullet between the Eyes" Etgar Keret: Repetitiveness, Morality, and Postmodernism <p>Abstract:</p><p>The central strategy in Etgar Keret&apos;s entire body of work is the combination of and the confrontation between two poetic moves: the looping repetition of narrative scenes, which seems mechanical, and the sudden appearance of an unusual conscious event, which disrupts the mechanism of repetition. The looping repetition is perceived here as a "narrative epidemic" that is hostile to any individual human performance. The appearance of the unusual event, which is seen here as a "narrative mutation," creates a caesura in which a humanistic existential space, whose realization is a task imposed on the "right readers," exists for an instant. These "right readers" must recognize this caesura, mark it, and then enlarge and expand it, and by doing so halt the looping movement and create a moral space, if only for a brief moment.</p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hebrew Studies National Association of Professors of Hebrew

"A Story or a Bullet between the Eyes" Etgar Keret: Repetitiveness, Morality, and Postmodernism

Schwartz, Yigal
Hebrew Studies , Volume 58 – Dec 7, 2017
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National Association of Professors of Hebrew
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<p>Abstract:</p><p>The central strategy in Etgar Keret&apos;s entire body of work is the combination of and the confrontation between two poetic moves: the looping repetition of narrative scenes, which seems mechanical, and the sudden appearance of an unusual conscious event, which disrupts the mechanism of repetition. The looping repetition is perceived here as a "narrative epidemic" that is hostile to any individual human performance. The appearance of the unusual event, which is seen here as a "narrative mutation," creates a caesura in which a humanistic existential space, whose realization is a task imposed on the "right readers," exists for an instant. These "right readers" must recognize this caesura, mark it, and then enlarge and expand it, and by doing so halt the looping movement and create a moral space, if only for a brief moment.</p>

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Hebrew Studies – National Association of Professors of Hebrew

Published: Dec 7, 2017

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