This was continued by Zionist luminaries such as Y.H. Brenner and Uri Zvi Greenberg. Today, it's a postmodern society, very divided, and there's no single literary or cultural center. People are more focused on themselves, so that's what they write about. It's a fact of modern life. Political changes have also made it harder for Israelis to be united ideologically.
Literature begins again.
People write about their own corner of Tel Aviv, and there's no attempt to write about the state. For Matalon, the best-selling author of one book of short stories and two novels, abandoning traditional perspective on her society was a deliberate choice. Matalon does not take Israeli identity as something obvious or monolithic. Many of her characters, therefore, occupy themselves with questions of self-definition and the fluidity of identity. The One Facing Us, her first novel, involves a teenage girl who forges her own identity as she explores the history of her family as they move between Egypt, Cameroon and Israel.