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4.0 out of 5 stars
A first-rate novelist and very poor thinker
These interviews are with one of the finest Hebrew language writers working today. Yehoshua is an outstanding storyteller and creator of character. However as a thinker he tends to return to a few fixed ideas, ideas which in some cases are based on ignorance. One of these ideas is that the Jews in the Diaspora had no real creative power or identity of their own...
Published on October 20, 2004 by Shalom Freedman
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bernard Horn is too much the adoring disciple
After having read four of A.B. Yehoshua's novels, I can state with confidence that he is one of the finest writers around today; however, Mr. Yehoshua's political views are nothing if not controversial and Bernard Horn does the reader a disservice by tossing him one cream puff question after another.
Published on August 28, 1999
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bernard Horn is too much the adoring disciple,
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This review is from: Facing the Fires: Conversations With A.B. Yehoshua (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) (Hardcover)
After having read four of A.B. Yehoshua's novels, I can state with confidence that he is one of the finest writers around today; however, Mr. Yehoshua's political views are nothing if not controversial and Bernard Horn does the reader a disservice by tossing him one cream puff question after another.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A first-rate novelist and very poor thinker,
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This review is from: Facing the Fires: Conversations With A.B. Yehoshua (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) (Hardcover)
These interviews are with one of the finest Hebrew language writers working today. Yehoshua is an outstanding storyteller and creator of character.
However as a thinker he tends to return to a few fixed ideas, ideas which in some cases are based on ignorance. One of these ideas is that the Jews in the Diaspora had no real creative power or identity of their own. The second is that the Jewish state should help create an Arab state within the total land West of the Jordan, and that while withdrawing all Jews from it the state of Israel should support and encourage the development of a large Arab minority within it. In other words Yehoshua is for a Judenrein Arab state, and a Jewish state which is in good part Arab. And for no Diaspora at all. This book does not probe Yehoshua very deeply. He does talk about his own literature with some insight. But the questions could have been deeper and the book a lot better. |
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Facing the Fires: Conversations With A.B. Yehoshua (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) by Bernard Horn (Hardcover - Dec. 1997)
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