Anton Shammas’s 1986 novel Arabesques has been the subject of much literary criticism and on-going discussions in Hebrew literature circles. This article argues that existing interpretations of this work share a fundamental similarity to the extent that they assume Arabesques to be a novel whose primary aim is to depict a certain kind of subject, in accordance with the complicated emplacement of Shammas as a Palestinian writing in Hebrew. Against such interpretations, we suggest that Arabesques is better understood as a text that resists the process of subject formation as linked to Althusser’s notion of ideology. Instead, Shammas explores the possibilities inherent in fictionality itself. Fiction, in our reading, is an alternative practice that opens up new possibilities for identity formations and for political criticism which are tied neither to ideology nor to the Althusserian interpellated subject. While departing from previous readings of the novel, these claims nevertheless stand in a line of descent with their predecessors. Yiftach Ashkenazi and Omri Grinberg, "’You Prefer Your Enemies Simple and Well Defined’: page 2 of 15 Reading Anton Shammas’ Arabesques as a Novel that Strategically Resists Interpellation" CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21.2 (2019): Thematic Issue Materiality and the Time of the Present in Israeli Culture. Ed. Oded Nir and Ari Ofengenden Yiftach ASHKENAZI and Omri GRINBERG “’You Prefer Your Enemies Simple and Well Defined’: Reading Anton Shammas’ Arabesques as a Novel that Strategically Resists Interpellation

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“您更喜欢简单明了的敌人”：将安东·沙马斯的蔓藤花纹读为一本策略性地抗拒串扰的小说

安东·沙马斯（Anton Shammas）1986年的小说《蔓藤花纹》（Arabesques）成为希伯来文学界众多文学批评和持续讨论的主题。本文认为，该作品的现有诠释具有基本的相似之处，即他们认为阿拉伯式花纹是一本小说，其主要目的是描绘某种主题，这是根据Shammas作为巴勒斯坦希伯来语著作的复杂位置而定的。 。相对于这样的解释，我们建议将蔓藤花纹更好地理解为一种抵制与阿尔都塞意识形态概念相关的主体形成过程的文本。相反，Shammas探索了虚构本身固有的可能性。在我们的小说中，这是一种替代做法，它为身份形成和政治批评开辟了新的可能性，而这既与意识形态无关，也与与阿尔都塞里亚式主题无关。尽管这些主张与以前的小说背道而驰，但与他们的前辈们相比却处在血统之中。Yiftach Ashkenazi和Omri Grinberg，“'您更喜欢简单明了的敌人'：第15页中的第2页，读安东·沙马斯的蔓藤花纹作为一种策略性地抗拒干扰的小说” CLCWeb：比较文学与文化21.2（2019）：主题实质性和以色列文化中的现在时代。埃德 Oded Nir和Ari Ofengenden Yiftach ASHKENAZI和Omri GRINBERG“'您更喜欢简单明了的敌人'：