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The 'Last Jewish Writer': An Interview With Aharon Appelfeld
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Forward
05-27-1994
The `Last Jewish Writer': An Interview With Aharon Appelfeld.
`My task as an artist was not to develop my imagination but to restrain it," Aharon Appelfeld tells the Forward in a Manhattan coffee shop not far from New York University, where the Israeli writer spent last semester as a visiting professor. "Of course," Mr. Appelfeld continues, "the reality of the Holocaust surpassed any imagination. If I remained true to the facts, no on...
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Aharon Appelfeld.(Author Profile)(Biography)
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Kafka and the Postmodern Divide: Hebrew and German in Aharon Appelfeld's The Age of Wonders (Tor Ha-pela'ot).
The Germanic Review
; Much recent cultural criticism has argued that postmodern culture can be diagnosed as an unworked-through period of mourning, unable to come to terms with the Holocaust and the definitive break with modernist categories that it represents.(1) Aharon Appelfeld's Hebrew novella The Age of Wonders
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Books: A nightmare disguised as a comic opera
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Aharon Appelfeld. Katerina.(Brief article)(Book review)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction
; Aharon Appelfeld. Katerina. Trans. Jeffrey M. Green. Schocken Books, 2006. 212 pp. Paper: $13.00. The Holocaust looms about Aharon Appelfeld's fiction. For forty years, Appelfeld, himself deported to the camps when he was only eight, has confronted its forbidding obscenity, but indirectly--tales of
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The Awful Truth
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; The Jewish Week 11-27-1998 In The Shadow Of The Shoah: Aharon Appelfeld's `The Conversion' and three first novels present characters that move through a tortured psychological landscape. DIANE COLE Special To The Jewish Week "The Conversion." By Aharon Appelfeld. Translated from the Hebrew by
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A Suspicion of Words
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; In The Shadow Of The Shoah: Aharon Appelfeld's `The Conversion' and three first novels present characters that move through a tortured psychological landscape. DIANE COLE Special To The Jewish Week "The Conversion." By Aharon Appelfeld. Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. Shocken Books.
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