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
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.
literature
Literature is about telling stories.
literature
You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
eye literature
Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
literature language
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
literature language
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
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.
literature psychological
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.
literature
I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.
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.
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.
integrity compromise idealism
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.
black-and-white world palestine
In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.