The Oz
The Oz
oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. Oz or OZ may also refer to:...
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.
book musical different
The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.
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.
dream father redemption
Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.
dream imperfect
Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.
dream different window
All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.
hebrew unthinkable
There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.
literature language
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
compromise idealist believer
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
brother writing character
The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister! How terrible I was! How right and wonderful you were! Please forgive me! Let's hug and love each other from now until the rest of eternity!" This is not the kind of reconciliation I write about; I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.
writing miracle mutual
I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
writing people enemy
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.
moving people sometimes
I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to one another and vice-versa. Sometimes I follow the way people who are intimately close to each other move apart. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.
writing novel listen-to-me
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should do this." They don't listen to me, but I've been doing this for sixty years now. But, when I write a novel, I am not in that business.