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Resenha a: GROSSMAN, David. A mulher foge. Trad. George Schlesinger. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2009. 656 p.  

Resenha a: GROSSMAN, David. Ver: amor. Trad. Nancy Rosenchan. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2007. 530p.

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The Fantasy, according to some theories – such as proposal by, for example, Todorov – has some continuity and consistency, migrating from the medieval perception of the world to the realm of Science. But the question is not so simple, since the elements of these two fields establish a dialogue whose essence cannot be reduced to a plain upgrade / transfer, since both the medieval fantasy and science fiction are not limited to the neutral and empty forms. Therefore the work of Robert Sheckley provides a rich and large reflection on the Fantasy and its political use, because his narrative scenography, with scientific trace and space set design, gives the message an ironic meaning more directly.

A person’s surname is a constitutive part of their personality, which incidentally allows us to revise and trace their family history. Most people inherit or receive their surname from their parents, which precludes the possibility of choosing one for themselves. However, there are individuals who choose to change their surname for various reasons, such as a change of country of residence or ideological reasons. In the present work I endeavour to explain how the process known as Hebraization took place, from the first mass immigration until a few years after the declaration of the State of Israel. The aims of this research are the revision of the causes that gave rise to this ethnolinguistic phenomenon, the description of the methods utilized for the Hebraization of surnames, and finally an analysis of the relation between names and the identity of a people.

The present article discuss Jewish characters of the historical romance Ivanhoé, by Walter Scott. During the Medium Age, the Jewish community in England was under the protection of noblemen and also at the mercy of arbitrary rates, as well as of discrimination laws. To what extent does Walter Scott's work contribute to unmask that universe of the exile? Does its narrative reinforce stereotypes or does it just illustrate fictionally a reality where the differences were systematically marked?

In this article we would like to dedicate the book of Joshua. To this end, their wish is to present the second approach of historical-critical research what are the possibilities of thinking a systemic understanding of this work as literature of the Christian canon.

Focusing on a Kafka fable about a cat and a mouse, the present paper assesses the value that impregnates the words. The term "mouse" implies – when it is used to symbolize a sentient being provided with intelligence and a human essence – the lessening to something lower in the chain or at least placed in a context similar to that which man considers proper to a mouse.

This article discusses the confusion of the concepts of exile and homeland in the life of Hebrew novelist Aharon Appelfeld, an author educated in the framework of Zionist ideology from the time of his arrival in British Palestine, in 1946, but who nevertheless remained attached to the world of his origins, the world of assimilated, German-speaking Jews of Central Europe. Appelfeld always felt very close to the community of expatriates from this region who arrived in Israel as refugees, before or in the aftermath of World War II. During the 1950's, he cultivated close relations with these refugees, who perceived themselves as exiles, and by this means he was able to reconstruct, in fiction, the world he had been uprooted from in 1940, at the age of 8. Two Austro-Hungarian novels by Appelfeld – Be et u've Onah Ahat and Massa al há-Horef – are also discussed here. In these novels he draws an emphatic portrait of the community of assimilated Jews in interbellum Europe. These Jews appear lost between a cosmopolitan and humanistic ideology, which rapidly disappears before the advance of fascist nationalism, and the decline of Hassidism. Suspended between two worlds which are in themselves about to disappear, these Jews resemble a new "Generation of the Desert", whose journeys take them to the nowhere of permanent exile.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Children of Israel have remained for centuries in Egypt, where they became slaves. In the last years of this terrible and degrading experience, they were spectators of fantastic events that culminated in their release: the plagues of Egypt, followed by the miracle of the opening of the sea for their passage. The book of Exodus (1:11) describes it as a warehouse city. After millennia buried, the remains of the town allegedly began to emerge in the last century, through archeology, and they can tell us a lot about its name, its history, its geography and its significance.

This work ́s main objective is to expose the facts that marked Freud ́s voyage to the USA , even before Stanley Hall ́s invitation, the professor from Clarke University in Manchester, Massachusetts. Shows it ́s relevance for the diffusion of psychoanalysis, as a vector to the establishment of relations, posterior meetings, exchanges and alliances related to it. And it points to the fact that, in a certain way, the Five Lessons of Psychoanalysis - the conferences that came to be translated to various languages - guaranteed that the foundation of the new science was extensively publicized. Also refer to the Freudian ́s inquietudes about how psychoanalysis was absorbed by the Americans and it ́s development in the USA caused by the voyage.

Taking into account the difference between plagiarism, fraud and fictional strategy, the main goal of this essay is to analyze the construction of literary texts that have a possible connotation between writing and crime. As stated by Anatol Rosenfeld, the literary fraud is as old as literature itself. One of the books chosen for this research is Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, written by Binjamin Wilkomirski. In the book, the author, who is also the narrator, affirms he was a prisoner of internment camps and a survivor of the Second World War. After a great success that the book reached and positive assessments by critics over the world, it was discovered that his history was not true.

Las leyendas de ultramar revelan la presencia de judíos lusos en los trópicos y judíos brasileños en los dos continentes: Europa y África. Es justamente por intermedio de estas leyendas que podemos testimoniar un hecho indiscutible: para los judíos y cristianos nuevos ibéricos, las aguas del Atlántico dejaron de ser un obstáculo intransponible, para convertirse en un lugar de reencuentro con la tan amada libertad. En el mar, el judío recuperó su propia identidad, respondiendo con convicción a sus dudas e incertidumbres. Este artículo estudia las diferentes leyendas y mitos judíos de ultramar en el contexto de la cultura luso-brasileña.

A study of "O retorno de Lorenzo", a short story by Primo Levi, based in Walter Benjamin's considerations about the narrator. It's an essay of classification of the narrator of this story, who works with the paradoxical task to tell the incommunicable experience of the concentration camps. It's questioned if the referential language, employed for the author with certain amount of technical terminology, is pertinent to a certification work and if the moral teaching that the story transmits makes to be reborn the actions of the experience after the decay of the same to have fond of the extremity, in Auschwitz.

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Resenha a: MELLO, Lucius de. Travessia da terra vermelha. Osasco: Novo Século Editora, 2007. 392p.

Resenha a: SHABTAI, Yaakov. Passado contínuo. Trad. Nancy Rozenchan. Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 1996. 359p.

Resenha a: CRUMB, Robert. Gênesis. Trad. Rogério de Campos. São Paulo: Conrad, 2009. 216p.