| Description |
vi, 118 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: But What Actually Existed Here Before the Big Bang? -- The Imperceptible Progress of Shade: On the Beginning of Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane -- Who Has Come?: On the Beginning of "In the Prime of Her Life" by S. Y. Agnon -- With an Expression of Very Respectable Importance: On the Beginning of Gogol's "The Nose" -- A Log in a Freshet: On the Beginning of Kafka's "A Country Doctor" -- Huge Losses: On the Beginning of Chekhov's "Rothschild's Fiddle" -- The Heat and the Day and the Wind: On the Beginning of S. Yizhar's Novel Mikdamot -- Into Mother's Bosom: On Several Beginnings in Elsa Morante's History: A Novel -- How Was It Possible for a Cow to Get onto the Balcony: On the Beginning of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch -- Take It Outside Before I Throw Up: On the Beginning of Raymond Carver's Story "Nobody Said Anything" -- From Tnuva to Monaco: On the Beginning of Yaakov Shabtai's Story "A Private and Very Awesome Leopard" |
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Conclusion: Leisurely Pleasure |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118) |
| Notes |
Translated from the Hebrew |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Technique.
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Israeli fiction -- History and criticism.
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Openings (Rhetoric)
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| LC no. |
98035353 |
| ISBN |
0151002975 (alk. paper) |
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0701168838 |
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