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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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For Rushdie, The Wizard of Oz is more than a children's film, and more than a fantasy. It's a story whose driving force is the inadequacy of adults, in which the weakness of grown ups forces children to take control of their own destinies. The Wizard of Oz 'was my very first literary influence,' writes Salman Rushdie in his account of the great MGM children's classic. At the age of ten he had written a story, 'Over the Rainbow', about a colourful fantasy world. But for Rushdie The Wizard of Oz is more than a children's film, and more than a fantasy. It's a story whose driving force is the inadequacy of adults, in which 'the weakness of grown-ups forces children to take control of their own destinies'. And Rushdie rejects the conventional view that its fantasy of escape from reality ends with a comforting return to home, sweet home. On the contrary, it is a film that speaks to the exile. The Wizard of Oz shows that imagination can become reality, that there is no such place like home, or rather that the only home is the one we make for ourselves. Rushdie's brilliant insights into a film more often seen than written about are rounded off with his typically scintillating short story, 'At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers,' about the day when Dorothy's red shoes are knocked down to $15,000 at a sale of MGM props. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Rushdie looks back to the circumstances in which he wrote the book, when, in the wake of the controversy surrounding The Satanic Verses and the issue of a fatwa against him, the idea of home and exile held a particular resonance. (provided by publisher)

Wizard of Oz (Motion picture : 1939)

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En años relativamente recientes, el género de la novela ha ido experimentando cambios notables, abanderados por la realidad y su invasión del territorio de la ficción. En el presente estudio exhaustivo de tres obras españolas (de Javier Marías, Antonio Muñoz Molina y Rosa Montero), situadas en un amplio contexto literario europeo, Alexis Grohmann propone como clave de esas transformaciones el concepto de la digresión. La porosidad o errancia genérica de las obras, su divagación argumental o ausencia de trama, su digresividad estilística y la errabundia de los procesos de creación, además del disperso y heterogéneo material con el que se trabaja, hacen que la digresión se perfile no tanto como un recurso o simple figura retórica, cuanto como una verdadera Weltanschauung , una manera de contemplar el mundo.

Spanish literature --- Spanish literature. --- History and criticism. --- Marías, Javier. --- Muñoz Molina, Antonio. --- Molina, Antonio Muñoz --- Marias, Khavʹer --- Muñoz Molina, Antonio --- מוניוס מולינה, אנטוניו --- Marías, J. --- 1900-1999 --- Marías, Javier --- Montero, Rosa --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Fantasy fiction, American --- Oz (Imaginary place) --- History and criticism --- Baum, L. Frank

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Muñoz Molina, Antonio --- Criticism and interpretation --- 860 "19" MUNOZ MOLINA, ANTONIO --- Spaanse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MUNOZ MOLINA, ANTONIO --- 860 "19" MUNOZ MOLINA, ANTONIO Spaanse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MUNOZ MOLINA, ANTONIO --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Muñoz Molina, Antonio --- Molina, Antonio Muñoz --- מוניוס מולינה, אנטוניו --- Muñoz Molina, Antonio - Criticism and interpretation