Amos Oz's most frustrating, inane, gross, boring, and conceited novel may also be his most brilliant, erudite, funny, and deeply profound work.Let me be frank: this book is absolutely tortuous to get through at times, actually, for most of its length it seems to be everything a book shouldn't be....
"قصة عن الحب والظلام" للكاتب الاسرائيلي عاموس عوز ترجمة جميل غنايم.قرأت"هذه الرواية الأسبوع الفائت وحركت بداخلي الكثير من المشاعر المتناقضة...لماذا متناقضة؟ لأنني أحببت أسلوب الكاتب الروائي وأعجبت باحترافيته من حيث الكتابة والثقافة، ولكنني بالمقابل اشمأزيت من تحريفه التاريخي والسياسي للأحداث.وسأق...
Mi madre se preocupaba mucho cuando yo era niño. De su boca escuché por primera vez la palabra misantropía al momento en que me pidió, casi rogándome, que saliera de casa. Yo vivía todo el tiempo en mi cuarto leyendo libros, cómics y dibujando en hojas tamaño carta escenas de un final nuclear ent...
Oz wrote this novel in a female protagonist’s voice when he was 26, and as he got older (and wiser) swore that he would never attempt that again. And yet Hanna Gonen took on a life of her own for him as he wrote this novel in a cramped toilet after work over several months while his wife and chil...
p.22 - The Narrator, about Rico David (the son)You too, with your traveling, your obsession to go further and further away and hoard more and more experiences, are carting your own cage around with you to the outer edge of the zoo. Everyone has their own captivity. The bars separate everyone fr...
Black Box by Amos Oz������������.5I picked up this book with little enthusiasm. Based on the summary, I was convinced that I would not care for it. The GoodReads summary was as follows, ���examines the lives of a contemporary Israeli couple whose marriage has ended in disaster.��� My initial reac...
I didn’t realise this was going to be a kid’s book but it was only short—always the attraction—and, besides, it caught my attention. I have to say I took a shine to the protagonist (protagonist? far too grand a title for our eleven-year-old narrator) who we only ever know as ‘Soumchi’, a nickname...
"Il nostro vero guaio è che non ci lasciamo entusiasmare da niente. Questa è la vera tragedia. Chi non si attizza più per nulla si raffredda e così si comincia a morire. Bisogna cominciare a desiderare.Trattenere forte, con tutte e due le mani perché la vita non scappi, spero capiate quel che int...
He was a tall, vituperative man with a hunched back. On account of kyphosis, his head was thrust forward almost at a right angle. At eighty-six years of age, he was gnarled and sinewy, his skin reminded you of the bark of an olive tree, and his tempestuous temperament made him seem to be boiling ...
He planned to stay overnight with relatives in Or Yehuda and get up at four thirty the next morning to catch the first bus back to the kibbutz so he could be there before school began. David Dagan patted the boy’s shoulder and said warmly, “These visits to your relatives pull you away from us. An...
Nature spun her yarn and breathed with every turn of the wheel. Creation has ears, but in her the sense of hearing and that which she hears are one thing, not two. The beasts of the forest stir and search for prey and the beasts of the farm stand at the manger. Man returns home from his labor. Bu...
Politics, Pinchas said, is a business that ‘nobody comes out of unscathed’. The younger man, for his part, put one or two questions to Pinchas to elucidate whether this was not an excessively general conclusion to draw from what was, after all, an individual case. &n...
Once she was in love with Charlie, the reserve goalkeeper of Bnei-Yehuda football team, who affectionately referred to her as Gogog. Charlie: the reserve goalkeeper of Bnei-Yehuda football team. Had a good time in Eilat with both Ricky and Lucy. Now owns a factory that manufactures solar water he...