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Index 185 Abraham, 111–13, 166n. 34 Allegory, allegorical reading, x, xii, 18, 88, 89, 99, 104, 113, 116–17 Amrami, Jacob, 44, 154n. 19 Apprenticeship (Bildung): in Shahar, 26, 71, 141; in Proust, 136–37, 141 Arab-Jewish (Arab-Israeli) conflict, representation of, xi, 87, 100, 103–04, 108, 115–17 Arab life, representation of, 102–03, 105–06, 164n. 18 Arabs, xii, 88, 89, 99; and collective identity , 117; as figure of fluidity and moderation , 93; analogy with Jews, 63, 97; and possession of the land, 103–04, 115–16, 164n. 19; as nomads, 104; as figure of violence 86, 92, 93, 163n. 11. See also Oriental Ashkenazi Jews, 108–09. See also Orthodox Jews Autobiography, autobiographical narration, 130, 134; in Shahar, 5, 26, 35–36, 44, 114, 126, 136; in Proust, 126, 130–31 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 80 Barthes, Roland, 58 Beckett, Samuel, 130 Benjamin, Walter, 81 Berger, Harry Jr., 166n. 36 Bersani, Leo, 170n. 14 Betrayal, 25; in the Palace novels, 55, 71, 73, 98, 99, 162n. 7; in “Of Dreams,” 34; in His Majesty’s Agent, 44, 45, 48, 50, 52, 71–72, 73 Body, 94, 101, 104, 110, 127; and clothes, 101–02, 104; and house, 16, 101–02; and mind duality, ix; and place, xi, 102, 111, 113, 166n. 30; and soul, xi, 18 Breaking of the vessels, xi, 11, 25, 50, 56, 90, 140 Brenner, Chaim Yossef, 8, 156n. 31 Canaanism, x, xi, 87, 107–11, 166n. 36 Characters, 6–7, 96–97; artists, 141–42; as doubles of the narrator, 15, 97, 98, 100, 114; dreamers, x, 143, 172n. 37; major and minor, 95–96; merging (conflation) of, 15–17, 44, 72, 90, 92, 96, 99–100, 162n. 10; narrator’s access to their minds, xii, 16, 44, 85, 92, 99, 126, 134, 140; and space, 58–59, 62–64, 70–71, 81–82, 84 Chronotope, 80, 81 Creation, 30, 35, 37–38, 40, 41–42, 53; artistic creation in Shahar, xi, 145–46, 173n. 42; artistic creation in Proust, 144–45, 147–48, 173n. 41; experience of, 138–39; in Lurianic Kabbala, xi, 3, 11, 140, 145; and painting, xi, 41, 42, 48; self-creation, 27, 144 Deleuze, Gilles, 136 de Man, Paul, 124 Derrida, Jacques, 153n. 14 Descombe, Vincent, 144 Desire: erotic desire, 30, 33, 42, 84; fulfillment of, 18, 23; and imaginary view of the self, 101–02; in Proust, 135; and reality, x–xi, 14–15, 20–23, 130; and vision, 33–34, 51–52, 55 Diaspora, 104, 107, 108, 113 Double, 4, 15, 97, 98, 100, 114 Double-bind, 48 Doubling, 16–18, 46, 154n. 26 Duras, Marguerite, 132, 133, 134 Durrell, Lawrence, 120 Eroticism, xi, 51, 110. See also Sexuality Error: in “First Lesson,” 139; in His Majesty’s Agent, 172n. 29; in the Palace novels, 88, 135–36; in Proust, 135–37, 140–41 Experience of the senses, 127–28, 129–30, 171n. 24 Evil eye, 45, 101, 154n. 23 Eye, 18, 33, 53, 129, 145; and desire (‘einayim ro-ot vekhalot), 34, 51–52, 55, 163n. 13; in Proust, 140–41, 171n. 23. See also under Woman Eye-sight, 11, 14, 19, 33, 39–40, 56 Family triangle (Oedipal triangle), 29–33, 44, 48, 72 Father, figure of, 3, 55, 98; betrayal of/by, 72; identification with 31, 32, 45, 48, 50, 52, 98; in “First Lesson,” 35–36, 38, 41; in His Majesty’s Agent, 45, 46, 48, 155n. 27; in “Of Shadows and the Image,” 26, 28, 30–32 Faulkner, William, 120 Feldman, Yael, 170n. 18 First person narrator (narration), 26, 34, 44, 132 Foucault, Michel, 78 Freedom: and aesthetic experience, 27; and artistic way of life, 26, 31–32, 34, 142–43, 152n. 2; and group affiliation, 90, 91, 112; from physical reality, 3, 123, 127–28; and writing, 42, 143 Freud, Sigmund, 28, 29; nachträglichkeit, 3, 30; the uncanny, 4, 155n. 29; primary process, 5; fort-da, 169n. 13 Frumkin, Gad, 75, 76, 157n. 3 Genette, Gérard, 124, 125, 127, 128, 172n. 31 Gurevitch, Zali, 166n. 36 Haile Selassie, 8,10, 13, 150n. 8 Hebrew, 107–111, 165n. 23, 166n. 36 Heterotopia, 78, 79 Hever, Hanan, 107 Holman-Hunt, William, 159n. 25 Idealism, 143 Identification, 30, 31, 32, 51–52, 84, 85, 100, 101, 126. See also under Father, figure of Identity: and body, 19; and clothes, 104; and desire, 4; fluidity vs.rigidity of, xii, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 100, 140; and group affiliation, xii, 88...

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