The subject of this article is the image of old Tel Aviv and its phonic
space in Natan Alterman’s prose. A characteristic quality of the Tel-Aviv
audio-sphere is mutual permeation of sounds which are part of the world
of nature and those generated by people and their civilizational activity.
On the one hand, the poet expresses his pride of the growing city, whose
noise, interpreted as a manifestation of youthful dynamism, becomes a sign
of transformation into a big metropolis, but, on the other hand, reveals
a nostalgia for the past: both connected with the origins of the city, as well
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