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| Title | : | My Michael |
| Author | : | Amos Oz |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 253 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2005 by Mariner Books (first published 1968) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Israel. Literature. Jewish |
Amos Oz
Paperback | Pages: 253 pages Rating: 3.62 | 2529 Users | 211 Reviews
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Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah’s tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written, profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story, and a rich reflective portrait of a place.
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| Original Title: | מיכאל שלי |
| ISBN: | 0156031604 (ISBN13: 9780156031608) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.62 From 2529 Users | 211 ReviewsDiscuss About Books My Michael
Amos Oz is an amazing writer. He writes with a lyrical, poetic, flowing prose that is no less than amazing. Even though, My Michael's tone was dark and harsh and bitter, it was still beautiful.I didn't want to compare/contrast this book to My Ántonia but I think that I need to. It is interesting to note the possessive form that the authors chose to use when referring to the subjects of their novels. The feeling that another individual belongs to, is a possesion, is noted in both of the tales.If you read for plot, leave this book on the shelf. Oz here traces the deterioration of a marriage between two people with opposing temperaments. The woman narrator, Hannah, is a romantic, who once studied literature, remains lost in a world of dreams, and longs for excitement. Her husband, Michael, is a geologist who speaks little and only with scientific care and precision. Nothing terribly dramatic happens, except on a purely psychological level. Hannah is bored, and finds her husband's
"I am writing this because people I have loved died."The central character, Hannah Gonen, tell us this at the very beginning. This is her story, a recounting of the first decade of her marriage to Michael. The setting is Jerusalemn, 1950s. He is a third-year geology student, she a kindergarten teacher and in the evenings a student of Hebrew literature. Her father, whom she loved above all else, died in 1943; her mother, brother and his family live in a kibbutz. She was a tomboy as a child and
Oz wrote this novel in a female protagonists voice when he was 26, and as he got older (and wiser) swore that he would never attempt that again. And yet Hanna Gonen took on a life of her own for him as he wrote this novel in a cramped toilet after work over several months while his wife and child slept adjacent in the one bedroom flat they lived in at the time.Hanna meets Michael while both are in university in Jerusalem in 1950, she studying literature and he studying geology. She is the
An emotionally- rather than plot-driven examination of a less-than-ideal marriage between Hannah, the passionate and dynamically imaginative former literature-student narrator, and Michael, the decent, solid, capable, feet-on-the-ground geology student. Hannahs lack of fulfillment drives the narrative, much the way we saw elsewhere with Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina. But the resolution is quite different focusing on inner rather than outer destruction. One thing I especially appreciated here was
Rich with imagery (The description of Jerusalem after the WWII where a young couple tries to build is own world. And where the Israel State is beginning), dense with symbols, and psychologically true, the novel is as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968 You should read "A Tale of Love and Darkness" for a fuller appreciation. The novel and the memoir complement each other. Hannah's battles for independence and control are paralleled to the growing pains of a new land determined
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