ABSTRACT

The image of Jerusalem in contemporary Hebrew literature offers a new concept of history, religion, and the flow of time. From the turn of the twenty-first century, literary works have brought the city to the fore as a cornerstone of their cultural and political examination of the Israeli situation following the second Intifada and its aftermath. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, Jerusalem surfaced in futuristic/dystopic writings, integrating mythical, biblical and historical elements in a futuristic reality, and challenging familiar conceptions of time and space. This article discusses and compares two works: Yishai Sarid’s Ha-shlishi (The Third, 2015), and Dror Burstein’s Tit (Muck, 2016). Both portray a horrifying, dystopic reality whose focal point is Jerusalem and the Temple, while shaping an intriguing dialectic tension between different temporal concepts, and offering new poetic strategies. These works demonstrate the great power of the city in contemporary Jewish and Israeli existence, and reveal the connections between ideology and violence.

摘要

当代希伯来文学中的耶路撒冷形象提供了一个关于历史、宗教和时间流动的新概念。从 21 世纪之交开始，文学作品将这座城市作为他们对第二次起义及其后果之后的以色列局势进行文化和政治考察的基石。在 21 世纪的第二个十年，耶路撒冷出现在未来主义/反乌托邦的著作中，将神话、圣经和历史元素融入未来主义现实，并挑战熟悉的时间和空间概念。本文讨论并比较了两部作品：Yishai Sarid 的Ha-shlishi ( The Third , 2015) 和 Dror Burstein 的Tit ( Muck, 2016)。两者都描绘了一个可怕的、反乌托邦的现实，其焦点是耶路撒冷和圣殿，同时在不同的时间概念之间塑造了一种有趣的辩证张力，并提供了新的诗意策略。这些作品展示了城市在当代犹太人和以色列存在中的巨大力量，并揭示了意识形态与暴力之间的联系。