Sunday, September 30, 2007
Yet another cultual text...
Because I am interested in pursuing a major (or minor) in writing, I would like to research a literay text as my cultural object. Lately, I have been reading a lot of short stories by an Israeli writer named Etgar Keret. Not only is Keret a celebrated for his quirky and poignant prose, but he is the qunitessential voice of Israeli culture. In a tiny country where nationalism is hyper-magnified, Keret's stories are viewed as small microcosms of the conflicts of life in Israeli society. His latest collection, "The Nimrod Flipout," is a delectable array of shorts that preview Israeli society from all angles. Although Keret avoids forwarding political opinion in his work, he illustrates a realistic picture of huge issues on the Israeli conscious--immigration, the army, repercussions of the Holocaust, the hi-tech industry. Yet despite the focus on Israel, Keret, like any good author, explores the conflicts of the broader human heart such as love, betrayal friendship, infidelity, aging, war, peace, nature--all of literature's major themes. As a thesis for a paper, I would choose a selection of Keret's writing that reflect a specific theme and examine how he superimposes this theme over Israeli society.
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Keret's work seems very rich and fascinating. It must be a great book to read. This might make your paper too broad but possibly think about how his other works relate to this book, or compare other authors' books on the same or similar topics to Keret's book.
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