Publications

This book is a methodical, comprehensive work that locates and analyzes the presence of trauma in the language, poetics and politics of Israeli literature. It raises acute questions about the politics of literature, and of its moral authority; it focuses on the responsibility of the author within the literary text. The book investigates the literary processing of trauma embedded in the destruction of European Jewry, of the 1948 war, the Palestinian Nakba, and the war of 1973 as they appear in the works of S. Yizhar; Leah Goldberg; Avot Yeshurun; Nathan Alterman; Aharon Apelfeld; Dan Pagis; Erez Biton; Yitzhak Laor; Shimon Ballas; Haim Beer and Rivka Basman Ben-Haim.

Con más de 30 mil ejemplares vendidos y una fama que ha trascendido con mucho las esferas académicas, The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories es considerada una obra de referencia para conocer y entender el fenómeno del cuento latinoamericano.

En estas Relecturas, el autor de la preciada antología, Roberto González Echevarría, presenta por primera vez en español la introducción de su icónica obra, la que acompaña de dos ensayos sobre cuentos latinoamericanos –uno de Borges y otro de Carpentier– que son una muestra de su aproximación al género y de su estilo de crítica.

Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole’s acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (American Poets), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a vital, unclassifiable body of work that plumbs centuries of wisdom while paying sharp attention to the textures and tensions of the present. He is, Harold Bloom writes, “a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness.”Cole is a maker—of poems and worlds.

co-edited with Melissa Sanchez

forthcoming.

This book follows key moments in the rise of Hebrew poetry in Eretz-Israel. The book clarifies the literary and political meaning of the “beginning” of literature as it is constituted by the great narratives of Hebrew literature: Zionism, and the settlement of the Land of Israel. The Zionist encounter of with the space of Eretz-Israel is revealed to be a violent one; Hebrew poetry written about it not only represents it but actually takes an active role in its creation. This poetry is understood here as a mechanism for “aesthetic conquest” of space manifested through the poetics and the language of the poetry developing in Eretz-Israel.