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An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay collections, and novellas written between 1965 and shortly before his death. In this first published biography of Oz, the celebrated translator, literary critic, and biblical scholar Robert Alter explores Oz's relationship with his family, beginning with the suicide of his mother, Fania Klausner, when he was twelve years old, and goes on to review his time in Kibbutz Hulda, which he entered at fourteen following his separation from his father, Arieh Klausner; his family's right-wing Zionism; his writing career; his activism in support of a pluralistic Israel; and his work as an international lecturer. In examining Oz's life and work, Alter brings together testimony from Oz and his circle, as well as close readings of his central works, to present the inner world and public persona of Amos Oz.
Authors, Israeli --- Oz, Amos, --- Oz, Amos,
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La trayectoria literaria de Antonio Muñoz Molina (Úbeda, 1956) ha sido un camino ascendente, jalonado por hitos que han convertido al autor en punto de referencia de la cultura española. Con su primera novela, «Beatus Ille» (1986), consiguió el Premio Ícaro. A este primer logro seguirían el Premio Nacional de Literatura y el de la Crítica en 1988 por «El invierno en Lisboa». Su actividad literaria se intensifica desde entonces convirtiéndose en asiduo articulista de los principales diarios del país. Su obra se sucede a ritmo frenético: artículos, ensayos, conferencias, adaptaciones al cine de sus obras, libretos de ópera, cuentos y, por supuesto, nuevas novelas. «El jinete polaco» (1991) le llevará a conseguir el Premio Planeta y, por segunda vez, el Nacional de Literatura. «Beltenebros», narrada en primera persona por el personaje principal, nos sumerge en el mundo del espionaje y de los bajos fondos, en la trastienda de las ciudades y en los ambientes nocturnos de un Madrid localizable en los años 60. La construcción de su trama se muestra como verdadero artífice de un estilo y de un modo de escribir, es el anzuelo que atrapa al lector.
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