Metamorphoses of 1968: Latin America and the Israel-Palestine Question in Tomás Abraham's La dificultad (2015). (May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pridgeon, Stephanie M.
• Other Names: Pozzi Pablo guest-editor.; Munck Ronaldo guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Latin American perspectives. Volume 46:Number 3(2019:May)
• Page Start: 55
• Page End: 70
• Publication Date: 2019-05
• Subjects: Zionism -- Argentina -- May 1968 -- Philosophy -- Judaism; Latin America -- Economic policy -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 320.98
• DOI: 10.1177/0094582X19828757
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0094-582X

Abstract

Throughout Tomás Abraham's novel of ideas La dificultad, Judaism is revealed to be central to the protagonist's understandings of revolutionary politics, philosophy, and his own identity. As is apparent in his affinity with Palestinian causes as a form of anti-imperialist solidarity, life experiences and politics are inseparable. That Abraham should have chosen to focus this autobiographical novel on the Hungarian-Argentine Jewish narrator's experiences with the Paris student movements of 1968 suggests that revolutionary movements and the challenges to the global Jewish community continue to affect his identity as a Jew, an Argentine, and a philosopher. A lo largo de la novela de ideas de Tomás Abraham La dificultad, se revela el rol central del judaísmo en como el protagonista entiende la política revolucionaria, la filosofía y su propia identidad. Como es evidente en su afinidad con las causas palestinas como una forma de solidaridad antiimperialista, las experiencias de vida y la política son inseparables. El hecho de que Abraham eligió enfocar esta novela autobiográfica en las experiencias del narrador judío húngaro-argentino con los movimientos estudiantiles de París de 1968 sugiere que los movimientos revolucionarios y los desafíos a la comunidad judía global continúan afectando su identidad como judío, argentino y filósofo.