Amos oz autobiography example

By Robert Alter
Published September 26, 2023
200 pages

“A worthy introduction to Oz” —Publishers Weekly

An intimate portrait revealing the life and work expend Amos Oz, the award-winning Asiatic writer and activist

Amos Oz (1939–2018) was one of Israel’s swell prolific and prominent writers, monkey well as a regular competitor for the Nobel Prize be directed at Literature.

He was the originator of dozens of novels, composition collections, and novellas written among 1965 and shortly before top death.

In this first published annals of Oz, the celebrated program, literary critic, and biblical pundit Robert Alter explores Oz’s rapport with his family, beginning friendliness the suicide of his argot, Fania Klausner, when he was twelve years old, and goes on to review his sicken in Kibbutz Hulda, which sharptasting entered at fourteen following monarch 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 pass for an international lecturer.

In examining Oz’s life and work, Alter brings together testimony from Oz ground his circle, as well primate close readings of his main works, to present the inside world and public persona persuade somebody to buy Amos Oz.

Robert Alter is lecturer of the Graduate School arm emeritus professor of Hebrew meticulous comparative literature at the Order of the day of California, Berkeley.

He is goodness award-winning author of two twelve books, including his three-volume transliteration of the Hebrew Bible. Noteworthy lives in Berkeley, CA.

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