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Somber Lust: The Art of Amos Oz » (Bargain)

Authors: Yair Mazor
ISBN-13: 9781615577064, ISBN-10: 1615577068
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: February 2002
Edition: Bargain

A comprehensive study of Israel's most internationally celebrated writer.

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Mapping Poetics, Documenting Ideology, and Above All, Being Motivated by Love	1
2	Since the Jackals' Lament Carries the Sound of Yearning: Intertextuality and Deconstruction in "Nomads and Viper"	7
3	The Father, the Son, and the Blowing of the Ill Wind, or Writing Strindberg from Right to Left	17
4	The Spy Who May Never Come in from the Cold: A Discussion of To Know a Woman	53
5	At Last, the Secret Double Agent Takes Off His Gloves and Removes the Mask: A Discussion of A Panther in the Basement	91
6	Essays Are Sometimes Masked Aesthetics: A Discussion of Under This Blazing Light	131
7	Some Rest at Last. Tracing a Literary Motif: The Motif of the Picture in A Perfect Peace and Beyond	139
8	Amos Oz Talks about Amos Oz: "Being I, Plus Being Myself" - An Interview with Hillit Yeshourun	159
	Notes	195
	Bibliography	199
	Index of Literary and Critical Works	203
	Index of Authors and Artists	205