ABSTRACT

This article offers a comparative reading of stories by Amos Oz and Sherwood Anderson to propose “smallness” – evoked by genre, setting, and literary devices – as a vital literary strategy structuring Oz’s works. Manifestations of smallness, fundamental to the twentieth-century American literary imagination, are indispensable in Oz’s stories. Paradoxically, both Oz’s literary modernism and his status as a “world author” can only be understood in the context of the small, the provincial, and the local that Anderson elevated to the status of great literature, suggesting that not only European literature but also (non-Jewish) American writing has influenced Hebrew literature

摘要

本文对阿莫斯·奥兹 (Amos Oz) 和舍伍德·安德森 (Sherwood Anderson) 的故事进行了比较阅读，以提出“小”——由体裁、背景和文学手段引起——作为构建奥兹作品的重要文学策略。作为 20 世纪美国文学想象力的基础的小表现，在奥兹的故事中是不可或缺的。矛盾的是，奥兹的文学现代主义和他作为“世界作家”的地位都只能在安德森提升为伟大文学地位的小、省和地方的背景下理解，这表明不仅欧洲文学，而且（非犹太人）美国写作影响了希伯来文学