David Grossman's "The Desire to Be Gisella"

In his essay, "The Desire to be Gisella," Grossman ponders the root of our fear of the "other" in ourselves and in those we love, and he thinks of authorship as a mad rebellion against this fear.

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David Grossman, "The Desire to be Gisella." Writing in the Dark, Essays on Politics and Literature. Translated by Jessica Cohen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

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David Grossman's "The Desire to Be Gisella"

Dory Manor's "The Language Beneath the Skin"

Jews and Words

Meir Shalev's "The Blue Mountain"

The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun

Ayelet Tsabari's "Savta"

A. B. Yehoshua's "The Lover"

Meir Shalev's "Four Meals"

Batya Gur's "Murder on a Kibbutz"

Ari Shavit's "My Promised Land"

Yaniv Iczkovits's "The Slaughterman's Daughter"

David Grossman's "The Desire to Be Gisella"

Dory Manor's "The Language Beneath the Skin"

Jews and Words

Meir Shalev's "The Blue Mountain"

The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun

Ayelet Tsabari's "Savta"

A. B. Yehoshua's "The Lover"

Meir Shalev's "Four Meals"

Batya Gur's "Murder on a Kibbutz"

Ari Shavit's "My Promised Land"

Yaniv Iczkovits's "The Slaughterman's Daughter"