Ethics and Aesthetics in Two Polyphonic Novels: Uma certa paz and A caixa preta, by Amos Oz

Authors

  • Berta Waldman Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.6.10.2-8

Keywords:

Israeli literature, Territory, Amós Oz

Abstract

Menuha Nehona, originally published in Israel in1982and released in Brazil only in 2010under the title Uma certa paz, the internationally acclaimed book by Amos Oz, focuses on the interval between the years1965and 1967, immediately prior to the Six Days War that modified the State of Israel in a radical way. It was after this war that Israel developed a craving for the occupied territories and began to use military force as a means of achieving them. Violence and confrontation between the characters themselves and the society provides ethical questions that go beyond the thematic plane, being present in building strategies of the novel, culminating in polyphony, which is more elaborate and radically evident in Oz’s posterior novel A caixa preta.

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Author Biography

Berta Waldman, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutora em Literatura Comparada e Teoria Literária pela Universidade de São Paulo. Professora titular da Universidade de São Paulo e professora colaboradora da Universidade de Campinas. É autora de, entre outros títulos: Entre passos e rastros, 2003 e O teatro ídiche em São Paulo, 2010.

Published

2012-03-30

How to Cite

Waldman, B. (2012). Ethics and Aesthetics in Two Polyphonic Novels: Uma certa paz and A caixa preta, by Amos Oz. Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital De Estudos Judaicos Da UFMG, 6(10), 2–8. https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.6.10.2-8