Amos Sauzee (amos oz,1May 4-201February 8, 939), formerly known as Amos Claussner, is an Israeli Hebrew writer and a tenured professor of Hebrew literature at Ben Gurion University in Israel.
1on may 4th, 939, amos oz was born into a Jewish immigrant family from eastern Europe in Jerusalem during the period of British trusteeship, and later lived and worked as a farmer in Hurdakibz. He participated in the Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War as an IDF soldier. Oz's major works include Where to Go, My Michelle and Scenery of Country Life. He was nominated by Femina Prize, Goethe Culture Prize, National Literature Prize, Kafka Prize, Prince asturias Prize and Nobel Prize in Literature.
20 18 12.28, amos oz died of cancer at the age of 79.
Chinese name: Amos Oz.
Mbth: English AmosOz, Hebrew: _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Alias: Amos Claussner _
Nationality: Israel
Ethnic group: Jews
Place of birth: Jerusalem
Date of birth:1May 4, 939
Date of death: 2065 438+08 65438+ February.
Occupation: writer
Graduate institutions: Hebrew University, Oxford University.
Major achievements: Franz Kafka Award.
Masterpiece: Where to go, my Michelle and the pastoral scenery.
The life of the character
1On May 4th, 939, amos oz was born into a Jewish immigrant family from Eastern Europe in Jerusalem during the British trusteeship period, and his original name was Amos Claussner. His parents came from Odessa (now Ukraine) in the former Soviet Union and Rovno (now Lithuania) in Poland. In Oz's childhood, explosions, curfews and power cuts were common, and Arabs and Jews often went to war.
195 1 year, 12-year-old oz was extremely disappointed with real life, and his mother swallowed a lot of sleeping pills and died.
1953, Oz rebelled against his family and went to Huerda Kibbutz (an Israeli collective farm with primitive colors) to live and farm.
1954, Oz was renamed, meaning "strong". He has successively obtained a bachelor's degree in literature and philosophy from Hebrew University, a master's degree from Oxford University and an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University. After obtaining a university degree, he returned to Kibbutz to teach and began his literary career.
From 65438 to 0967, amos oz participated in the "Six-Day War" against Egypt as a soldier of the Israel Defense Forces, fighting tanks in Sinai Peninsula.
1968, My Michelle was published and became famous at one fell swoop.
1973, Oz served in the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War.
1978, amos oz and his colleagues initiated and organized "PeaceNow! Movement, a left-wing organization composed of 348 Israeli reserve officers and active soldiers.
From 65438 to 0986, amos oz and his family moved to the southern Israeli town of Allard. After accepting the employment of Ben Gurion University, he taught in the Hebrew Literature Department there and became a university professor like his great-uncle Joseph Claussner. While teaching, Oz immersed himself in writing, and was invited to give lectures all over the world as a resident writer.
1992, due to his contribution to the peace movement, Oz won the "German Book Peace Prize", which is one of the most important international peace prizes. At that time, German President weizsacker presented the award to Oz.
In 2002, according to his own experience, Oz wrote his masterpiece The Story of Love and Darkness. With this book, Oz won the Goethe Cultural Award in 2005, the Booker International Award in 2007, and the Prince asturias Prize for Literature in the Spanish-speaking world in 2007. On 20 15, Hollywood actress Natalie Portman adapted this book and put it on the big screen as her directorial debut.
In 2009, amos oz published a collection of short stories, Scenes of Country Life.
In 20 14, amos oz was awarded the first Lentz Prize.
20 18 12.28, amos oz died of cancer at the age of 79.
Main work
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Creative characteristics
theme
As a representative of the "new wave" writers who rose in the Israeli literary world in the 1960s, Oz's writing theme is so "single": unhappy families. This theme has two meanings, the subject is "family" and the scope is "unhappiness". For the former, Oz thinks that this is the password of all his works-because "family is the most mysterious, comic, tragic, paradoxical and fascinating existence in human invention". Taking family as a peephole, we can enter the social outlook and secular human feelings of Israelis and show the truth of Israeli life and many practical problems and survival challenges faced by Jews. Therefore, Oz's family stories are intertwined with national narratives, and the background is mostly set in the historic ancient city of Jerusalem and the unique style of Kibbutz. The background of some novels also extends to Europe during the Crusades and Hitler's rule in the Middle Ages, describing the historical experience of the Jewish nation and the Jewish "disappointed love" for Europe.
For example, the long autobiographical novel The Story of Love and Darkness tells how two good people, Oz's parents, fell in love, but their marriage ended in tragedy. This is also a group image of the Jewish nation. Although the volcano is close at hand, people will still fall in love, be jealous, dream and spread gossip. Another example is the long epistolary novel Black Box. Seven years after the failure of marriage and the interruption of contact between the hero and heroine, Oz invited them to sit down and analyze the black box in their lives through letters, and at the same time cracked the reasons for the breakdown of family life, pulling the social reality and political debate in Israel out of the surface. On the surface, the most adventurous novel "A Blue Ocean on the Beach" describes the family conflicts between two generations living in Kibbutz, but in fact, the old generation cherishes Israel's founding ideal, while the new generation should solve new problems on the basis of inheriting the achievements of the old generation.
Although Oz's identity has a strong political color, there is no blunt political color in his novels. What readers can feel is only the writer's most subtle description of love (and the shadow it casts), just like the shadow swaying in the wind. Every novel of his tells that in today's chaotic world, love is becoming scarcer and scarcer, which is what each of us longs for. However, due to cultural, political, economic, social and racial reasons, the pursuit of love has become difficult and complicated. He is good at solving family mysteries, and his works are good at describing typical daily life in Israel. Like Chekhov, he described a sad life with a smile. Rely on imagination to find the secrets of every family bedroom and kitchen.
As a Jew loaded with profound historical accumulation, in the Middle East, where the war continues, Oz's stern eyes turned from family to society, to the world and to history. Not only writing family stories, but also describing the history, present situation and future of the nation. With profound thinkers' brushstrokes and humanist feelings, it not only describes the troubled history of the Jewish nation and the significance of its homeland to the Jews, but also cares about the plight of other ethnic groups, especially Palestinian Arabs. It is precisely because Oz himself has experienced suffering and deeply understands the suffering of his own nation that he can deeply understand the suffering of another nation.
style
In order to establish his own unique value, amos oz tried to temper his own style, deliberately disrupted some normal narratives, wrote several things in parallel, interspersed before and after, and used carefully conceived rhetoric. Many of Oz's early novels are set in Kibbutz, which reflects his real feelings when he first arrived in Kibbutz. Oz has an ambivalent attitude towards Kibbutz: on the one hand, he is full of affection for Kibbutz and thinks that Kibbutz is an excellent idea of Israeli pioneers; On the other hand, he realized the distance between dream and reality, and the contradiction between the ideal of changing the world and the selfish nature of human beings, so he often took a critical attitude towards Kibbutz. Writers often start from writing short stories, from short to long, and gradually control the overall situation. Oz's works often explore the mysterious family life, and are good at capturing the meaning from daily life and guiding readers to get closer to the core of Israeli family life step by step. They often use the family as a peephole to show the unique social outlook and secular human feelings of Israelis, reveal the truth of contemporary Israeli life and many practical problems and survival challenges faced by Jews.
Oz attaches great importance to the practice and renewal of literary skills and literary types. My Michelle is a love novel that transcends love novels, Black Box is an epistolary novel, Understanding Women takes Mossad staff as the object of description, Don't call it night is set in a desert town rejected by modern life, The Same Sea combines poetry and prose, and Panther in the Basement is set in the last period of British trusteeship over Palestine, and looks at the world from a child's perspective. The collection of short stories "Scenery of Country Life" feels a bit like Kafka's works, which is quite different from the expression of "Ghost Messenger Villa", which is set in Kibbutz and composed of three touching and interrelated stories.
Winning record
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Personality assessment
"We praise amos oz in the spirit of SiegfriedLenz."-German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
"(amos oz) used poetic language full of metaphor and imagination to show the complex intertwined fate of the country, nation and individual in the process of pursuing the secret pain of individuals, families and ethnic groups, and expressed his concern for human reality". -"21International Literature Festival for College Students" judging meeting