‘Mr. Mani is conceived on an epic scale as a hymn to the continuity of Jewish life. This formulation sounds pat and sentimental, but Yehoshua’s achievement is the opposite: it always suggests even more complex worlds beyond the vignettes of which the novel is composed.’. · Beginning in present-day Israel, Hagar Shiloh, back on the kibbutz where she was reared, tells her mother how she saved Mr. Mani, the father of her lover, from committing suicide. Conversation number two, between a German soldier and his grandmother, takes place on Crete during WW II and accounts for Mr. Mani's childhood escape from the Germans. Mar Mani: The Archaeology of Self-Deception WITHIN WEEKS OF ITS PUBLICATION in the spring of , A. B. Yehoshua's Mar Mani (Mr. Mani) was recognized as a major achievement of modern Hebrew fiction, one that demands and deserves scrupulous critical attention. In an uncanny consonance with its internal structure.
"Sephardic Identity and Its Discontents: The Novels of A. B. Yehoshua" in Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination, Ed. Yael Halevi-Wise (Stanford University Press, ). Halevi-Wise, Yael. "A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani and the Playful Subjectivity of History," in Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in. Mr Mani ebook By A.B. Yehoshua. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. Author. A.B. Yehoshua. Publisher. Halban. Release. 11 June The Multiple Risks that A.B. Yehoshua Takes in his Novel Mr. Mani By Judith Roumani * A.B.Y. needs no introduction, being one of the best known Israeli novelists, not always recognized as being Sephardi. He is definitely Sephardi on both sides of his family, his mother being from Morocco, and his father from an old Jerusalem family.
Beginning in present-day Israel, Hagar Shiloh, back on the kibbutz where she was reared, tells her mother how she saved Mr. Mani, the father of her lover, from committing suicide. Conversation number two, between a German soldier and his grandmother, takes place on Crete during WW II and accounts for Mr. Mani's childhood escape from the Germans. For in this novel, A.B. Yehoshua has done nothing less than chart the course of modern Jewish history, both in Palestine, the State of Israel, and the Diaspora. But at the same time, while attaining this mighty reach, the novel is extremely intimate. The Mani family and their connection to Jerusalem is unforced and natural. Mar Mani: The Archaeology of Self-Deception WITHIN WEEKS OF ITS PUBLICATION in the spring of , A. B. Yehoshua's Mar Mani (Mr. Mani) was recognized as a major achievement of modern Hebrew fiction, one that demands and deserves scrupulous critical attention. In an uncanny consonance with its internal structure.
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