Word: kaniuk
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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ADAM RESURRECTED by Yoram Kaniuk, translated from the Hebrew by Seymour Simckes. 370 pages. Atheneum...
Adam, in short, possesses some of the manic gifts that used to be associated with divine madness. Like Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin, he sees only absolutes in a world of ostensible reason. Almost singlehanded, he gives gnarled life to this book, the third novel of Israeli Author Yoram Kaniuk...
...widow persuaded that God was conceived in the desert by prophets who were themselves psychotics. As a fanatic inmate explains: "We were a nation, a nation that betrayed its God. And we paid the highest price possible -we became smoke and ashes." And all those who returned are, in Kaniuk's idiosyncratically mordant view, insane. During the day they live well. They are allowed to work, make money, build houses, enjoy the illusion of progress. But at night they have nightmares and cry. "The insult scorches," the author explains. The knowledge, the final realization that they were "simply...
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