Moj Michael
In the magnetically appealing novel My Michael, Amos Oz, one of the most important contemporary Israeli writers, builds a certain tension between the non-events in the outside world and the devastation in the inner life of his main character, Hanna.
More precisely, the tiresome identity of reality and Hannah's multifaceted/multifaceted inner self. She wonders if it is possible that everyone but her has come to terms with time, ambition, sacrifice and so-called progress. Since her reality is completely in the power of emptiness, she retreats into a world of imagination and suppressed longings. In her dreams, she becomes an all-powerful princess surrounded by her devoted subjects. When she is awake, however, she is a living chronicle of repressive and very loud silence, terrifying torment and unbearable emptiness. Writing about Hannah's life, Oz writes Jerusalem beyond the occasional tourist postcard - Jerusalem of sorrow, immense female pain and gloomy reality. He does so in such a lyrical intensity and tension that the pages you will turn through seem almost dramatic. The suggestiveness of this Jewish family "drama" is certainly disturbing even in its European (Croatian) version. Locked in our dreams, trapped by notions of reality and canonized male-female relations, we live through some terrifying repetitions, habits, and dense deaths of our senses. And the power of love dies within us while we are still alive.
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