Literary Parallels Stemming from a resemblance in the Authors' Creative Development: The Extraordinary Similarities between Amos Oz's The Same Sea and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

From: PSYART | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Blumrosen-Sela, Sagit | Copyright information

This paper presents outstanding parallels between the books The Same Sea by Amos Oz, the well-known Israeli writer, and James Joyce's masterpiece Finngeans Wake. The parallels between the works - in terms of plot, structure, ideas, language, style and more - are explained mainly in light of the fact that both were written at an equivalent stage in the writers' lives and creative development, after a very similar literary itinerary, which led them to regard human lives and to create in an amaz...

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