The Amos Oz Reader - Brossura

Oz, Amos

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ISBN 10: 0156035669 ISBN 13: 9780156035668

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Riassunto

The Reader draws on Oz’s entire body of work, loosely grouped into four themes: the kibbutz, the city of Jerusalem, the idea of a "promised land," and his own life story. Included are excerpts from his celebrated novels, among themWhere the Jackals Howl, A Perfect Peace, My Michael, Fima, Black Box, and To Know a Woman. Nonfiction is represented by selections from Under This Blazing Light, The Slopes of Lebanon, In the Land of Israel,and Oz’s masterpiece, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Robert Alter, a noted Hebrew scholar and translator, has provided an illuminating introduction.

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Recensione:

"Bringing the same intensity of engagement and passion for poetic expression to fiction and nonfiction alike, [Oz] articulates the psychological complexity beneath the armor of Israel's bellicose politics and the tragedy of its geopolitical predicament. This well-organized volume reaches back to the 1960s, mixes genres, and showcases Oz's beautifully mythic prose...Timely and illuminating."-Donna Seaman, Booklist "[T]his literary album contains striking snapshots by a gifted writer with a capacious heart and humane philosophy." -Kirkus Reviews

L'autore:

AMOS OZ was born in 1939 in Jerusalem. At the age of fifteen, he left home, and lived and worked for many years on a kibbutz. His first book, Where the Jackals Howl, was published in Israel in 1965 to immediate acclaim. He is one of the leading figures of the Peace Now movement and has written and lectured widely on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Harcourt has published Amos Oz’s work for the past thirty-five years, most recently his memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, an international bestseller and the recipient of the Koret Jewish Book Award, among many other honors.  NITZA BEN-DOV is a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Haifa University, as well as a scholar of biblical poetics.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0156035669
• ISBN 13: 9780156035668
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 392
• Redattore: Ben-Dov Nitza