Writing in the dark
By: David Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen.
Contributors: Cohen, Jessica.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9780374281106
Subjects: Literature and history -- Israel; Literature and society -- Israel; Israeli literature -- History and criticism; Jewish literature -- History and criticism; Arab-Israeli conflict; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Description: "Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and neighbors. In six new essays on politics and culture in Israel today, he addresses the conscience of a country that has lost faith in its leaders and its ideals. This collection includes an already famous speech concerning the disastrous Second Lebanon War of 2006, the war that took the life of Grossman's twenty-year-old son, Uri. Moving, humane, clear-sighted, and courageous, touching on literature and artistic creation as well as politics and philosophy, these writings are a cri de coeur from a heroic voice of reason at a time of uncertainty and despair."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Books that have read me; title: The desire to be Gisella; title: Writing in the dark; title: Individual language and mass language; title: Contemplations on peace; title: Yitzhak Rabin memorial rally.