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Bezig met laden... Mijn Michael (1968)door Amos Oz
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I read it in a fit to understand Israel better and he is a famous Israeli author, and this is supposed to be a classic. I was disappointed. It was more a stream of consciousness of a depressed woman. I could tell it was literary and lyrical, just not very enjoyable. ( ) 1968 novel. The narrator is a woman who is telling the story of her meeting and marrying Michael. Hannah meets Michael, she likes Michael, distrusts Michael, marries Michael. Then she gets pregnant, gives up her own career. At times it feels as if she is not mentally stable. She slips more and more into a world of fantasy and has a hard time relating to husband and even to her son who is much like his father. The novel's setting is in the early 50s and the nation is young and is fighting for its survival. The story was difficult to engage in. There is little plot to it. It really is more of a character study and themes include fear, mistrust, duality.It felt odd to read this story of this depressed, disturbed woman written by a male author. Bel libro, niente da dire: Oz ha una capacità di scrittura, dal mio punto di vista, notevole. Romanzo scritto completamente al femminile, dal punto di vista della giovane sposa. Personaggi chiari, pochi ma definiti, ed un romanzo che va via bene fino alla fine: dove non c'è un colpo di scena ma una conclusione logica di un buon romanzo.
In his introduction to this new edition of My Michael, written more than 40 years after the book's original appearence, Amos Oz describes how Hannah, his intelligent, bored and increasingly unstable narrator, would "dictate" the words that make up her story to him as he sat in the cramped lavatory of his kibbutz home, writing late into the night. Hannah tells of how she met Michael, an unassuming geology student who becomes her husband, and of their life in Jerusalem in the 50s. They are both young – too young – and are not emotionally prepared for marriage. Limited financially, lonely and uninterested in her immediate world, Hannah is forced to abandon her study of literature while Michael goes on, in his prosaic way, to become a university lecturer and to fight in the Arab-Israeli war. It is not, perhaps, a book to read for its plot. What stands out, rather, is Oz's strident lyricism as Hannah's bipolar tendencies take her in and out of feverish fantasies about a pair of twins she knew in her youth. In her imaginings, the three of them are warriors against an unnamed enemy, playing violently in the desert and the sea. These passages are tucked in among descriptions of mundane reality, which Oz vividly conveys. "My Michael" is anything but a provincial achievement; it has nothing to do with noble kibbutzim, Sten guns and sabras, nor with the Talmudic dryness of Israel's Nobel Prize-winner, the late S. Y. Agnon. It's quite the last kind of book one expects from a young writer living in the midst of a melodramatic political situation, for "My Michael" is an extremely self-conscious and serious psychological novel, slow, thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. On the surface it is very much what used to be called a "women's novel"--the story of a disintegrating marriage told from the unhappy wife's point of view. In a way it's a modern Israeli "Madame Bovary," a finely wrought portrait of a woman that is also a critique of a superficial "masculine" society. But unlike Emma Bovary, the heroine doesn't flee to romantic infidelity but to schizophrenic inner depths. The political implications are not hard to unravel: Amos Oz is suggesting that in her heart Israel is going mad dreaming of Arabs, while on the surface emotionally stunted "new Israelis" are going about their nation's business cut off from self and history. It's hardly surprising that the book caused controversy and was a best seller in Israel. For American readers, though, "My Michael" is distinguished by its warmth, its lyricism and remarkable technical control, its fluent pattern of repetitions--threads of words and associations that weave and interweave a vast underwater net. In this Mr. Oz resembles such young American writers as William H. Gass and Joseph McElroy. Intelligent, heartfelt, perhaps a bit too small and self-enclosed, "My Michael" is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished foreign novels to appear here in the last few years; it is a most impressive American debut for Amos Oz. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Les ales esteses (291) Gallimard, Folio (2756) Keltainen kirjasto (143) Rainbow pocketboeken (230) suhrkamp taschenbuch (2750) A tot vent (166) Erelijsten
One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael created a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and established Oz as a writer of international acclaim. Like all great books, it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize. Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael tells the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah's tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written and profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story and a rich, reflective portrait of place. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)892.436Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew Hebrew fiction 1947–2000LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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