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Abraham B. Yehoshua

Israeli author

Also known as: A. B. Yehoshua

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comparison to Kahana-Carmon

In 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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contribution to Hebrew literature

In 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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