Etgar Keret / Life at a louder volume

 

Etgar Keret

Life at a louder volume

Etgar Keret's ambiguous, surreal short stories, along with his films and graphic books, have made him a controversial and popular figure, often hailed as the voice of young Israeli

BIOGRAPHY

Maya Jaggi

Saturday 17 March 2007

Etgar Keret read Slaughterhouse-Five while doing compulsory military service in Israel, and found it liberating. "I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right," he remarks. "But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough."

Alain Elkann interviews Amos Oz

Amos Oz

In his book “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, which has been translated from the original Hebrew into many different languages, Israeli writer Amos Oz tells of his youth and his relationship with Jerusalem, where he was born.