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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Oz, Amos (1939-2018). Auteur de la collation
Hadad, Shira
Titre(s) : What makes an apple? [Texte imprimé] : six conversations about writing, love, guilt, and other pleasures / Amos Oz, with Shira Hadad ; translated by Jessica Cohen
Traduction de : Miymah ʻaswy hatapwaḥ
Traduction de : ממה עשוי התפוח
Publication : Princeton : Princeton University Press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (138 p.) ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
Text in English, translated from the Hebrew.
"This book consists of six conversations between Amos Oz and Shira Hadad, who worked
closely with Oz as the editor of his novel Judas. The interviews, which took place
toward the end of Oz's life, about a decade after the publication of his memoir A
Tale of Love and Darkness, capture the writer's thoughts and opinions on many of the
subjects that occupied him throughout his life and career, including writing and creation,
guilt and love, death and the afterlife. In the first interview, "A Heart Pierced
by an Arrow," Oz discusses how he became a writer, along with his writing process
and its attendant challenges. "Sometimes" explores Oz's reflections on men, women,
and relationships across his experience and work. "A Room of Your Own" sketches his
development as a writer on the kibbutz and his eventual decision to leave. In "When
Someone Beats up Your Child," Oz discusses the critical reception of his work, and
in "What No Writer Can Do" he describes his experience teaching literature, including
his thoughts on contemporary modes of literary instruction. In the concluding piece,
"The Lights Have Been Changing Without Us for a Long Time," he reflects on other writers
and on changes he has observed in himself and others over time. The title comes from
a passage in the first interview: Oz says, "What makes an apple? Water, earth, sun,
an apple tree, and a bit of fertilizer. But it doesn't look like any of those things.
It's made of them but it is not like them. That's how a story is: it certainly is
made up of the sum of encounters and experiences and listening.""
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Cohen, Jessica (1973-....). Traducteur
Sujet(s) : Oz, Amos (1939-2018)
Genre ou forme : Entretiens
Indice(s) Dewey :
892.436 (23e éd.) = Roman de langue hébraïque - 1947-1999 [critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691219905. - ISBN 0691219907. - ISBN 0691230277
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47184211f
Notice n° :
FRBNF47184211
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A heart pierced by an arrow ; Sometimes ; A room of your own ; When someone beats
up your child ; What no writer can do ; The lights have been changing without us
for a long time.
