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The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance
The Elsewhere On Belonging at a Near Distance Author:Adam Zachary Newton "The Elsewhere." Or, midbar--biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers of The El... more »sewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts--cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways--narrate the paradox of the "near distance.". Featured Writers: Andre Aciman, Aharon Appelfeld, Elias Canetti, Witold Gombrowicz, Emmanuel Levinas, Dan Pagis, Edward Said, W. G. Sebald, Bruno Schulz, Anton Shammas, and Gregor von Rezzori« less