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Farewell to Abraham Yehoshua, the narrator of the Jewish world

Writing for him has always been “a way of creating new situations in which to integrate the public and the private, that is, to connect political events to human relations”. The political events mentioned in this interview with Vanity Fair are those of Israel always at the center of the reflection of Abraham Yehoshua, writer who died at age 85. He had been nominated for the Nobel Prize several times and was the symbol, along with Amos Ozof Israeli literature, but also of the conscience of the country.

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He was born in Jerusalem on December 9, 1936. Her mother, Malka Rosilio, was born in Morocco, her father Yaakov came to Thessaloniki and was a renowned historian. Between 1954 and 1957 he had served in the military and fought in the Arab-Israeli war of 1956. He then graduated in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Jerusalem. In 1960 he had married Rivka, psychoanalyst, with whom he had three children. He had 7 grandchildren. He believed in the family and in the institution of marriage based on a plan of rigorous equality between the spouses.

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His first novel is from 1962, international success he was arriving in 1977 with The lover, published in Italy by Einaudi like all his other works. Six characters to tell the story of an Israeli family during the Yom Kippur War. It is always the individual events and those of the country that intertwine in his pages. The same pattern of the characters’ voices who each tell the story from one point of view is in A Late Divorce of 1982.

Abraham Yehoshua always talked about the complexity of the Jewish world. Mr. Mani from 1990 includes 5 dialogues in which the characters are told by the words of others. The tunnel of 2019 addresses the theme of memory and the misfortune of being clinging to the past starting from a protagonist who is affected by a principle of senile dementia. “Too much memory becomes a barrier,” he said, thinking also of Palestine and Israel, of which he also recognized the wrongs, for which he did not see the possibility of a solution in the two separate states, but a binational state. He had won numerous literary awards around the world for the 12 novels he wrote. Many in Italy where he had often been a guest.

Other stories of Vanity Fair that may interest you:

– Photographs from the album of happiness 7

– Abraham B. Yehoshua: “Let’s get more soul”


Source: Vanity Fair

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