Fima
Fima is the Oblomov of the late twentieth century. His enthusiasm and his passion for moralizing are magnificently displayed in the Israel of our day. Fima is a novel full of sensuality, humor, and intelligence.
When all is said and done, what is happening to the world and where is Fima? The two have been together for fifty-four years, during which Efraim Nomberg Nisan – it is true – had several loves and several brilliant ideas, a collection of poems that once aroused many expectations, and his own thoughts on the meaning of the universe and the future of Israel, but today, on this cloudy and rainy Jerusalem morning in 1989, Fima feels more than ever the old need to turn over a new leaf in his life.
In the gallery of magnificent characters created by Amos Oz, Fima occupies a special place. A part-time poet and full-time dreamer, a sharp polemicist and a clumsy seducer, a receptionist at a gynecological clinic and the moral conscience of a nation, Fima, under the pen of one of the greatest writers of our time, has become a prism through which the most important questions a human being can ask themselves are refracted. With a lot of humor, warmth, and knowledge of the human soul, and with his well-known, exceptional storytelling gift, Amos Oz in Fima gives us a portrait of one man – and one generation – of those who dream noble dreams, but too often do nothing to turn them into reality.
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