Ethics and Aesthetics of Children: the Generation of Earth’s Literature

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Leopoldo Osório de Carvalho de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14126
• topic: Literatura; Tradição; Ideologia; Nacionalismo; Literature; Tradition; Ideology; Nationalism

By mentioning in its title the treatise Ethics of the Fathers, mishnaic collection of proverbs and jokes of the first rabbis of Israel, this text has as its main goal the analysis of the options, attitudes and ethical dilemmas of the first native speakers writers of the modern Israeli literature towards the ancient Jewish literary tradition from Diaspora, as well as their relations to the socio-political environment of Palestine during the British Mandate period and of the first years of the foundation of the State of Israel. In this sense, there is in this text the attempt to analyze how and to witch extent the political and literary activities of these writers, as intellectuals and artists, had an impact over the aesthetics traits of their fictional texts.