Critical reading of two short stories, “Berta”, by Aharon Appelfeld, and “A menor mulher do mundo”, by Clarice Lispector. The former, by an author who lives in Israel, the later, by a Jewish immigrant writer who lived in Brazil. Despite the differentiated plots and themes, underlies an ordinary reflexion on the management of the otherness built from a power apparatus.; Leitura crítica de dois contos, “Berta”, d...
In this article, I study Eve’s largest discours in The life of Adam and Eve, greek version. At first, I introduce the theme of the change of perspective through a contemporary novel, Jostein Gaarder’ʹs Vita Brevis. Next, I show fastly the text with which I work. Then, I aproach Eve'ʹs discours, observing in what way it is inserted in the narrative. I think about the way in which the change of perspective of Eve...
Analysis of three instances of Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires. The first, a theatre spoken in Yiddish that comes from the contexts of immigration, that has to do with the millenarian life of the Jewish, the memories of the shetl, and the pogroms. The second is the theatre of the experience in the region of Argentina, related to the narrative, already in Yiddish, already in castellano. The third exemplifies the...
This article analyzes the monstrosity of a biblical character: the big fish of Jonah’s Book and it reappearance in the contemporary novel, 1983, Moacyr Scliar’s, A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes. Through this analyze, it seeks to indicate some contrast and likeness features of monster’s function in each of these texts. It works with the hypothesis that the big fish in the biblical text would have a function of...
Le conte Obras do diabinho da mão furada, écrit au XVIIIe siècle par Antônio José da Silva, o Judeu, apparut, pour la première fois, au Portugal, sous la forme de «Cordel». On aperçoit une poliphonie mélangeant des sources populaires et érudites. L’auteur tisse sa narrative avec des fils prêtés des aventures de Dr. Faust mêlé avec des pactes, des diables, des sorcières, outre des références académiques et class...
The most common crimes in the nazi movies were the seduction of women, the forgery of amounts, the theft of German documents and inventions, the fraud that damaged the people and overall the theft of jewelry. The criminals were represented with similar physical features: adiposes, dim and sensual look, with mustaches that decorated thick lips. Such biotypes were widely related to the Jewish in the anti Semitic ...
Analysis of Jewish monsters recreated by Jorge Luis Borges in the Handbook of Fantastic Zoology and The Book of Imaginary Beings, named: Behemoth, Lilith and the Angels Haniel, Kazfiel, Azriel and Aniel. Some multiples representations and versions of these entries as well as its dialogue with the Torah and its inscription in the literature.; Análise dos verbetes de monstros judaicos recriados por Jorge Luis Bor...