What Makes an Apple? - Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures

Amos Oz, Shira Hadad

Princeton University Press

2022

152 páginas

5h 4m

ISBN-10: 0691219907

Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz

In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in English for the first time, painting an illuminating and disarmingly intimate portrait of a towering literary figure.

In frank and open exchanges that are by turns buoyant, introspective, and argumentative, Oz explains what impels him to begin a story and shares his routines, habits, and challenges as a writer. He discusses the tectonic changes he experienced in his lifetime in relationships between women and men, and describes how his erotic coming of age shaped him not only as a man but also as an author. Oz reflects on his parents, his formative years on a kibbutz, and how he dealt with and learned from his critics, his students, and his fame. He talks about why there is more humor in his later books and gives his exceptional take on fear of death.

Resonating with Oz's clear, honest, and humorous voice, What Makes an Apple? offers unique insights about Oz's artistic and personal evolution, and enables readers to explore his work in new ways.

Resenhas (15)

3.5 (Bom)

Li bem rapidinho. O Amós Oz faz reflexões profundas sobre vários temas importantes. O início e o fim do livro trouxeram os temas que mais conversaram comigo, como a posição da mulher na sociedade, o tamanho da literatura, a relação com a morte, as experiências do Amós de vida e com escritores, enfim, o livro é rico demais. Em uns 50% do livro me deu uma cansada mas valeu a pena continuar. Primeiro pq o livro é muito curto e segundo e mais importante é que é realmente bom e reflexivo. Fiz várias anotações e marcações nele. E terminei, acho que como a maioria, doida pra ler De amor e trevas.