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The aim of this article is to analyze Jerusalem’s soundscape as depicted in the works of the Israeli writer Amos Oz, employing the notion of a “soundscape” created by the Canadian musicologist R. Murray Schafer and developed within the interdisciplinary field of “sound studies”. Oz’s literary vision of Jerusalem refers mainly to the period of the riots and armed attacks in the 1940s, as well as to...
The article presents the image of Jerusalem of the 1950s. Despite the realistic topography of the Holy City in My Michael, the line between the imagery of urban space and the world of the protagonist’s inner experiences has been blurred. The labirynth-like space of Jerusalem becomes not only the material equivalent of Hanna’s deteriorating mental health, but also a universal metaphor of loneliness,...
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