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I have read all of Amos Oz's works published in Korea, but I do not think any have been as difficult as this one. I don't know how many times I stopped reading. Even though I was clearly reading straight through, I would get lost and wander, forcing me to return to the beginning. I finally managed to grasp the plot and took a brief break, but the rhythm I had lost would not return. Even after finishing the book, I could not shake off the uneasy and anxious feeling, as if I had just emerged from
Amos Oz: Poem of Life and Death
*Poems of Life and Death*, a novel by Amos Oz, a representative author of modern Israeli literature. It depicts the eight hours spent in Tel Aviv by a famous male novelist, "The Author," at a reading of his new work. On a sweltering summer evening, "The Author," a renowned novelist in his 40s, arrives at the event introducing his new book. At the café he visits before the reading, and even while the reading is in progress, "The Author" keenly observes the audience and invents all sorts of stories using them as the protagonists. After the event ends, wandering the night streets alone, "The Author" climbs a narrow staircase to reach the apartment of a female reader who had read his work with excessive sentimentality…
Korean title: 삶과 죽음의 시
Korean author: 아모스 오즈
Korean publisher: 열린책들
ISBN-13: 9788932910666
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I have read all of Amos Oz's works published in Korea, but I do not think any have been as difficult as this one. I don't know how many times I stopped reading. Even though I was clearly reading straight through, I would get lost and wander, forcing me to return to the beginning. I finally managed to grasp the plot and took a brief break, but the rhythm I had lost would not return. Even after finishing the book, I could not shake off the uneasy and anxious feeling, as if I had just emerged from
