Leading Israeli author Amos Oz has a new book out in Hebrew: "Haruzei Hachayim v'Hamavet," which literally means "The Rhymes of Life and Death". Unlike his best-selling autobiography "A Tale of Love and Darkness", his new work is literary novel. "It's not a normal story," he said in an interview in today's Ha'aretz magazine, "it's an unusual story. It's a story about a story, it's a story about how a book is born, how it's written. This is a story about the act of writing. I don't know whether the readers will find it easy, hard, strange, attractive, repulsive to read a story on how books are written." Not having read the book myself, I can't say, but I was intrigued to read his remarks about Tel Aviv in the interview. While Oz spends his working week in the desert town of Arad, he has a weekend home in Tel Aviv. "I love its positivity, I love the way it is engrossed with itself, it's almost like a young girl who is obsessed with herself. I also love its sense of curiousity, because it's a city that's curious and open to the outside world… And Tel Aviv is so ugly that she's almost beautiful. And she's sexy." But whether you agree or disagree with his views about Tel Aviv, don't bother trying to email him. "I don't have an internet connection. I know that I'm caveman, but I don't have internet, I don't have an email, I'm not connected. I have the time, but I need it for other things."
This post was written by Jeff Barak
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