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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966955303321

Autore

Cohen Joseph <1926->

Titolo

Voices of Israel : essays on and interviews with Yehuda Amichai, A.B. Yehoshua, T. Carmi, Aharon Appelfeld, and Amos Oz / / Joseph Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c1990

ISBN

9780791499399

0791499391

9780585063256

0585063257

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 231 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

AmichaiYehuda

Disciplina

892.4/09006

Soggetti

Authors, Israeli

Israeli literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Content -- Yehuda Amichai -- A. B. Yehoshua -- T. Carmi -- Aharon Appelfeld -- Amos Oz -- Back Matter -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Cohen takes an in-depth critical look at three novelists and two poets who stand at the forefront of contemporary Israeli literature, and whose works have been widely read, studied, and admired in the Western world. The critiques examine all English translations of these Israeli writers' major works from the beginning of their careers up to the present. Cohen demonstrates the vitality and virtuosity of the so-called New Wave Israeli writers whose sources and influences are as ancient as the stories of the Hebrew Bible and as modern as the interiorization of reality found in Proust, Faulkner, Woolf, and Joyce; and the literary adaptation of relativity found in Borges, Lowry, and Durrell.   Complementing the critiques are interviews with the five Israeli writers. The issues discussed-the relation of politics and literature, the influence of literature on life, the role of the writer in society, the moral responsibility of the writer-combine with the essays to provide



comprehensive insight into the contemporary Israeli psyche.