Amós Oz and the Third Condition: Politics and Literature and/without Resentment

Authors

  • Maria Clara Castellões de Oliveira Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.23.2.175-184

Keywords:

literature, resentment, conflict between Arabs and Jews, The Third Condition, Amós Oz

Abstract

This article deals with the articulation of politics, literature and resentment, relying mostly on the study of the works The Third Condition, by Amós Oz, and Ressentimento, by Maria Rita Kehl. It is motivated by a feeling of astonishment in relation to the lack of congruence among not only the ideas of Erich Auerbach and Cynthia Ozick when it comes to the relationship between the Greeks and the Jews with literature, but also the postures of Jewish extraction philosophers on concepts such as those of alterity, hospitality, friendship, forgiveness and ethics and the conflicts between Arabs and Jews that occur in the Middle East. The literature produced by Oz is seen, in this context, as a locus of exposition of such incongruence, which is a result of an excess of memory, responsible for what he calls “Jerusalem syndrome”, and for what Kehl recognizes as resentment.

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Author Biography

Maria Clara Castellões de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Doutora em Letras – Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Professora do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora.

 

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KEHL, Maria Rita. Ressentimento. 4. ed. São Paulo: Casa do Psicólogo, 2011 [2004].

OZ, Amós. An unholy war. Disponível em: http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~fisher/hst372/amosoz101796.html. Acesso em: 1 nov. 2012.

OZ, Amós. Contra o fanatismo. Trad. Denise Cabral. Rio de Janeiro: Ediouro, 2004 [2002].

OZ, Amós. Fima. Trad. George Schlesinger. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996 [1991].

OZICK, Cynthia. Metaphor and memory. In: OZICK, Cynthia. Portrait of the artist as a bad character and other essays on writing. London: Pimlico, 1996. p. 311-329.

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Published

2013-08-30

How to Cite

Oliveira, M. C. C. de. (2013). Amós Oz and the Third Condition: Politics and Literature and/without Resentment. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 23(2), 175–184. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.23.2.175-184

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2013): Memórias de Guerra

Section

Sessão 4. Imagens Memorialistas Pós-1945

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