In Praise of Normality

A. B. Yehoshua

1980

The attempt I have made to realign these concepts does not, of course, do away with the conflicts, tensions, cultural struggles, and constant inputs and reequilibrations of problems of identity. All it does, I think, is establish a more correct framework for struggles of this sort, which take place among all peoples and in all countries. We, who…

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A. B. Yehoshua

b. 1936

A. B. Yehoshua is an author, playwright, and essayist. Jerusalem-born, he served in the military, taught in Paris, and was a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Haifa University. Yehoshua has written numerous best-selling novels as well as nonfiction, children’s books, and plays. His essays have appeared in the Israeli and foreign press. In 1995, Yehoshua received the Israel Prize for Literature.

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