Abraham B. Yehoshua

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Abraham B. Yehoshua

Israeli author

Also known as: A. B. Yehoshua

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Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Along with Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, Kahana-Carmon became a key figure in the new wave of Israeli fiction of the 1960s. Unlike her contemporaries, however, she wrote about the inner lives of women, exploring a realm of desire and fantasy more subjective than the Zionist themes then prevalent in…
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Along with Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, Kahana-Carmon became a key figure in the new wave of Israeli fiction of the 1960s. Unlike her contemporaries, however, she wrote about the inner lives of women, exploring a realm of desire and fantasy more subjective than the Zionist themes then prevalent in…
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Hebrew literature
Israeli literature
But many New Wave writers—including A.B. Yehoshua, Yaʿakov Shabtai, and Amos Oz—made attempts in their early work to distance themselves from preoccupations with Israeli reality. In Yehoshua’s stories the narrator’s tone is remote and the people are drained of emotion. Occasionally, an act of feeling or meaning breaks the mood…
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But many New Wave writers—including A.B. Yehoshua, Yaʿakov Shabtai, and Amos Oz—made attempts in their early work to distance themselves from preoccupations with Israeli reality. In Yehoshua’s stories the narrator’s tone is remote and the people are drained of emotion. Occasionally, an act of feeling or meaning breaks the mood…
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