Under This Blazing Light

by Amos Oz

Book Overview

Perhaps most of the essays in this book are substitutes for stories that I have not managed to write, says Amos Oz in the preface to Under This Blazing Light. Published for the first time in English, this collection of essays reveals the personal and political thoughts of Israel's most celebrated novelist. The essays in this volume put a unique perspective on the author's own experiences and development, and reveal a complex and deeply human figure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521443679
• ISBN13: 9780521443678
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Oz as Thinker

Besides being a novelist of great talent and dexterity, Amos Oz is a thinker of no little subtlety. This collection of pieces, Under This Blazing Light, were mainly written from the 60s to the late 70s, and are chiefly concerned with Hebrew letters, Zionism, the meaning and practice of socialist Zionism, and life on the kibbutz (in the sixties and seventies). Here one is struck by Oz's great humanity; his expansive soul; even in his most harshly written pieces (for example, he rips the writer Yosef Brenner a new one in his acceptance speech for the fiction prize named after Brenner!) Oz always finds a redeeming feature, some element to round out and soften the picture.