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Books : Fiction : Contemporary Fiction: 1970 Onwards : Authors A-Z : O : Oz, Amos
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The Same Sea finds Amos Oz, one of Israel's finest living novelists, at the height of his literary powers. First published in Hebrew to wide acclaim, Nicholas de Lange's elegant translation of The Same Sea retains the complex mosaic of voices that make up Oz's novel, as it daringly hovers between prose and poetry. Both the plot and style of the book are encapsulated in its first lines:Not far from the sea, Mr Albert Danon lives in Amirim Street, alone. He is fond of olives and feta; a mild accountant, he lost his wife not long ago.
Slowly, the connections unfold between the quietly grieving Albert, his dead wife Nadia, their absent son Enrico, and the two women in his life--Enrico's sensuous girlfriend Dita, and his widowed friend Bettine. The short, allusive chapters cut between prose and a loose, free verse, as the characters' paths are marked out and criss-crossed, as Oz skilfully moves from the confused, contemporary world of Enrico and Dita, and the elegiac past of Albert, Nadia and Bettine. At points Oz himself appears to offer solace and advice to his characters, as well as his readers. Offering hints as to the nature of the novel, he suggests "you could see it as a number of intersecting triangles", but that, ultimately, all the characters "are among shadows". Playful, beautifully written, and full of biblical and rabbinic allusions, The Same Sea is a consummate but also strangely elusive novel. --Jerry Brotton
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Amos Oz has long been regarded as one of the most important of Israel's post-war novelists, best known for his widely acclaimed novels Panther in the Basement, Don't Call it Night and Black Box. In The Story Begins, Oz reminds his audience that he is also a brilliant literary critic. Examining the beginnings of 10 novels and short stories from the past two centuries of fiction, he offers a series of beautifully precise and illuminating accounts of the ways in which different writers establish a pact with their readers, luring them into the particular fictional world of their books. Along the way Oz offers short but incisive accounts of the fiction of, amongst others, Fontane, Gogol, Kafka, Carver, Marquez and Elsa Morante. The Story Begins is that great rarity, a perfect fusion of literary criticism with creative writing, where the novelist acts as critic, and in the process reveals just how subtle and skilful is the process of writing fiction. The book is also Oz's pleasures of reading, rather than the rigours of academic analysis. The only disappointment that The Story Begins provides is that it does not explore more than 10 pieces of fiction.--Jerry Brotton
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