Postmodernist Novel in Israeli Literature. Outside Opinion

Abstract

The article investigates a debut novel by Meir Shalev, a famous Israeli prosaist. Proceeding from the discurs-analysis it is proved that the national history concept in Shalev’s “Russian novel” (1988) is based at the post-modernist understanding of the world in which discourses deconstruction of ideological (Zionism) and religion (Judaism) had the determining meaning. The methods of the discursive codes and practices (“double coding principle” and others) play-mode re-coding give rise to the parody-laughing effect in the novel.