Michal Ben-Naftali
1) The teacher
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss. She was a respected English teacher at a Tel Aviv high school, but she remained aloof and never tried to befriend her students. No one ever encountered her outside of school hours. She was a riddle, and yet the students sensed that they were all she had. When Elsa killed herself by jumping off the roof of her apartment building, she remained as unknown as she had been during her life. Thirty years later, the narrator...
Author
Language
English
Description
A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in-and as-deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, Ben-Naftali provides a wide-ranging investigation of interpersonal relationships: the love of a teacher, the anxiety-ridden bond between a mother and daughter...
Author
Publisher
Knizhniki
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
"'Ona znala: pora... Nikto ne uslyshal krika, prorezavshego vozdukh, nikto ne uvidel chernui︠u︡ figuru zhenshchiny-ptit︠s︡y, melʹknuvshui︠u︡, kak meteor, sredi nochi'. Shkola potri︠a︡sena samoubiĭstvom uchitelʹnit︠s︡y Ėlʹzy Vaĭs, o kotoroĭ nikomu pochti nichego ne izvestno. Taĭna ee zhizni i smerti mnogie gody ne daet pokoi︠a︡ byvsheĭ uchenit︠s︡e. I 30 let spusti︠a︡ ona nachinaet sobstvennoe rassledovanie....
