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Amos Oz’s Ḥaruze ha‑ḥayim ṿeha‑maṿet follows a literary celebrity in his forties as he gives a reading in Tel Aviv on a sweltering night. Exhausted and bored, he seeks distraction in a café, where he encounters his own characters—especially a seductive waitress named Ricky—and starts weaving complex narratives around the people he meets. During the evening, he interacts with the audience, answering banal questions about his craft, and later invites a female reader for a drink. Their night culminates in a brief, ambiguous sexual encounter that blurs the boundary between fantasy and reality. The title’s reference to forgotten Hebrew couplets underscores the novel’s meditation on writing, aging, and the elusive pursuit of literary legacy.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Amos Oz
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