Playing with Israel's Reality the Life and Art of Amos Oz in the Cockpit of Conflict.
Sunday Herald › March 10, 2009
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SAY what you like about the Middle East but one of the few things the warring parties will agree on is that life in that benighted part of the world is never boring. That, certainly, is the view of Amos Oz, by common consent Israel's greatest living novelist. "You should come one day, " he tells me on a fleeting visit to London. "I can't tell if you're going to like it or dislike it but I can guarantee that you are not going to be bored for a split second. This place is boredom-proof."
Oz lives in Arad, a town fringed by desert and well within range of Hamas's rockets. In May he will be three-score years and 10, the allotted biblical span. Thus he is older than the Jewish state. Yet for a man who has lived entirely in the cockpit of conflict he seems remarkably chipper, as if nothing fate can throw at him will surprise him. Everyday drama is his normality. "We're addicted to drama, " he says ruefully.See the full content of this document
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Playing with Israel's Reality the Life and Art of Amos Oz in the Cockpit of Conflict.
Oz is a gnomic, deeply tanned, sardonic man. He speaks English with an accent but the tongue he prefers and the one in which he writes is Hebrew. All his work, including his latest novella, Rhyming Life And Death, appears first in Israel's official language, then it is usually translated into many languages.
"This is my native tongue and I love ...See the full content of this document
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