Yehuda Amichai
The Making of Israel’s National Poet
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Nili Scharf Gold | ISBN: | 9781584658122 |
| Publisher: | Brandeis University Press | Publication: | March 15, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Brandeis University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Nili Scharf Gold |
| ISBN: | 9781584658122 |
| Publisher: | Brandeis University Press |
| Publication: | March 15, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Brandeis University Press |
| Language: | English |
Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century’s (and Israel’s) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai’s early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvre, untapped notebooks, and a cache of unpublished letters to a woman identified as Ruth Z. that Gold discovered convincingly demonstrates how the poet’s German past infused his work, despite his attempts to conceal it as he adopted an Israeli identity.
Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century’s (and Israel’s) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai’s early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvre, untapped notebooks, and a cache of unpublished letters to a woman identified as Ruth Z. that Gold discovered convincingly demonstrates how the poet’s German past infused his work, despite his attempts to conceal it as he adopted an Israeli identity.
