Translated by Jessica Cohen Translated by Jessica Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 11008956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Translated by Jessica Cohen Translated by Jessica Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Translated by Jessica Cohen |
| FAMILY NAME | Translated by Jessica Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN T B J C T B J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
De Beauvoir and Sartre on the Kibbutz
While visiting a kibbutz to give a lecture, and after dining on both hot desert-root vegetable soup and sushi, the speaker becomes the listener when someone in the audience completes an anecdote about Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Mosquito
Rock, Paper
“Rock, Paper” offers readers a strikingly original meditation on history, memory, and the narration of both. This stand-alone excerpt from Gardi's book-length work of creative nonfiction of the same name depicts the author's troubled and troubling attempts to come to terms with a past that is equal parts heroic and tragic. Replete with sensitivity, humor, and critical acumen, Gardi's flowing prose draws connections between childhood, war, the pas…
Readers' Reports
The deadpan satire of “Readers' Reports” presents a skewed vision of the hierarchies that exist in the publishing business. Narrated in the first-person plural, this story possesses a haunting quality that emphasizes the narration's menacing wit. “Readers' Reports” appears in the author's fourth book, Ketovet Esh (The option), a collection of short stories that found its way onto best-seller lists in Israel
Master of the Short Story (an excerpt)
Since her first novel was published in 2003, Maya Arad has been justly recognized as one of the most versatile and talented writers of Hebrew. This excerpt from her 2009 novel Master of the Short Story (Oman haSipur haKatsar) highlights her attention to craft, her wicked humor, and her sharp eye for telling detail. Master of the Short Story's acerbic take on the art and business of writing emerges through its clever architecture: the novel is its…
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Mosquito
Rock, Paper
“Rock, Paper” offers readers a strikingly original meditation on history, memory, and the narration of both. This stand-alone excerpt from Gardi's book-length work of creative nonfiction of the same name depicts the author's troubled and troubling attempts to come to terms with a past that is equal parts heroic and tragic. Replete with sensitivity, humor, and critical acumen, Gardi's flowing prose draws connections between childhood, war, the pas…
Readers' Reports
The deadpan satire of “Readers' Reports” presents a skewed vision of the hierarchies that exist in the publishing business. Narrated in the first-person plural, this story possesses a haunting quality that emphasizes the narration's menacing wit. “Readers' Reports” appears in the author's fourth book, Ketovet Esh (The option), a collection of short stories that found its way onto best-seller lists in Israel
Master of the Short Story (an excerpt)
Since her first novel was published in 2003, Maya Arad has been justly recognized as one of the most versatile and talented writers of Hebrew. This excerpt from her 2009 novel Master of the Short Story (Oman haSipur haKatsar) highlights her attention to craft, her wicked humor, and her sharp eye for telling detail. Master of the Short Story's acerbic take on the art and business of writing emerges through its clever architecture: the novel is its…
De Beauvoir and Sartre on the Kibbutz
While visiting a kibbutz to give a lecture, and after dining on both hot desert-root vegetable soup and sushi, the speaker becomes the listener when someone in the audience completes an anecdote about Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)