Michal Peled Ginsburg is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University. She is the author of Flaubert Writing: A Study in Narrative Strategies; Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel; and editor of Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Old Goriot. Moshe Ron is Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the translator of La Pharmacie de Platon by Jacques Derrida, as well as works by Raymond Carver and Paul Auster.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Flirting with the Uncanny

Narrative Organization
Chronology
Identities
Uncanny Photo

2. The Eyes of a Woman in (and out of) Love: Creation, Painting, and Betrayal in Shahar's Fiction

"Of Shadows and the Image"
"Of Dreams"
"First Lesson"
His Majesty's Agent
Of Candles and Winds

3. Shahar's Jerusalem

Small World/Liminal Space
Space and Plot
Heterotopia
An Urban Idyll

4. Otherness, Identity, and Place

Fluid Identities and Violent Mobs
The Portrait of the Narrator as an Arab Chauffeur
Exchanging Clothes, Exchanging Places
Canaanite, Hebrew, Jew
A Cautionary Tale

5. Remembering Proust

Similes of Memory
Metaphor and Metonymy
Autobiographical Narration
Apprenticeship
Artists

Notes

Bibliography

Index