Amos Oz
Amos Oz
Amos Ozis an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He is regarded as Israel's most famous living author...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth4 May 1939
CountryIsrael
literature language
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
literature psychological
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.
trying literature translations
I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque.
literature painting music-is
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
literature language
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
literature
I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.
literature
You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
literature
Literature is about telling stories.
reading lucky literature
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
eye literature
Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
different literature manifest
Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at others in a different way. This goes way beyond just making statements or manifesting principles.
literature not-sure
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.
small-town novel exception
The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.
falling-in-love jealous volcanoes
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.