Close Encounters with Twenty Israeli Writers

by Eilat Negev, Risa Domb (Introduction)

Overview

Drawing upon interviews and independent research, Israeli journalist Negev (a literary correspondent for Yedioth Achronot) offers a collection of twenty profiles of prominent contemporary Israeli writers. In discussing these authors' lives and work, Negev touches on such topics as the fear of terrorism, the secret desires of Orthodox women, and the burden of Israel's history. Some of the authors profiled include Uri-Zvi Greenberg, Meir Shalev, and Dorit Rabinyan. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853034858
Publisher:	Vallentine Mitchell Publishers
Publication date:	03/01/2003
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Introduction	xiv
1.	Shmuel-Yosef Agnon (1887-1970) Abandoned People, Lost Places	1
2.	Uri-Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981) Eyes that Penetrate the Abyss	11
3.	Natan Alterman (1910-70) Lava of Love and Politics	20
4.	Leah Goldberg (1911-70) Cursed by Love	28
5.	S. Yizhar (1916- ) No Stone is Worth Dying For	37
6.	Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) A Secular Prophet	46
7.	Natan Zach (1930- ) A Gentle Man in a Harsh Land	55
8.	Aharon Appelfeld (1932- ) Caught in a Web of Hallucination	65
9.	Yaacov Shabtai (1934-1981) End of the Matter	73
10.	Dalia Ravikovitch (1936- ) The Things to be Forgotten	82
11.	A.B. Yehoshua (1936- ) In Search of Borders	91
12.	Amos Oz (1939- ) The Secret Agent from the Eighteenth Compartment	101
13.	Hannah Bat Shahar (1944- ) The Double Life of the Rabbi's Wife	111
14.	Yona Wallach (1944-85) Never Shall I Hear God's Sweet Voice	119
15.	Meir Shalev (1948- ) The Emasculated Man and the Queen Bee	127
16.	David Grossman (1954- ) I'm an Egg without a Shell	135
17.	Ronit Matalon (1959- ) Reminiscences of a Street Cat	144
18.	Zeruyah Shalev (1959- ) A Collector of Catastrophes	153
19.	Orly Castel-Bloom (1960- ) Between Motherhood and Madness	161
20.	Dorit Rabinyan (1972- ) Cinderella's Lost Sandal	170