The Liberated Author; In His Newest Novel, A.B. Yehoshua Returns to His Arab Characters; The Liberated Bride

From: Forward | Date: December 5, 2003| Author: Miron, Susan | Copyright information


Forward

12-05-2003

From the beginning of his career, the Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua has
examined the complex relationship between Israeli Jews and Arabs, most
notably in his 1964 novella, "Facing the Forests," and his early novel,
"The Lover," set in Israel after the 1973 war. By the late 1980s, however,
Yehoshua deemed it impossible -- at that moment in time -- to portray an
Arab as an independent, credible character, and declared he would not w...

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