Amos Oz : Writer, Activist, Icon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alter, Robert.

Series:

Jewish Lives Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oz, Amos, 1939-2018.

Oz, Amos.

Authors, Israeli--Biography.

Authors, Israeli.

Israel--Biography.

Israel.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023.

Summary:

An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay collections, and novellas written between 1965 and shortly before his death. In this first published biography of Oz, the celebrated translator, literary critic, and biblical scholar Robert Alter explores Oz's relationship with his family, beginning with the suicide of his mother, Fania Klausner, when he was twelve years old, and goes on to review his time in Kibbutz Hulda, which he entered at fourteen following his separation from his father, Arieh Klausner; his family's right-wing Zionism; his writing career; his activism in support of a pluralistic Israel; and his work as an international lecturer. In examining Oz's life and work, Alter brings together testimony from Oz and his circle, as well as close readings of his central works, to present the inner world and public persona of Amos Oz.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note to the Reader

1. Childhood

2. The Kibbutz, Romance, and the Army

3. The Fiction Writer

4. Friends, Family, and Performance

5. The Activist

6. Taking Stock

Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-300-27438-6

OCLC:

1393241355