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...When I started writing I thought I was really, really fucked up,” Etgar Keret told me in between sips of his Earl Grey tea one Monday afternoon in November. “But so many people identify with my stories that I understood that all of us are really, really fucked...
...When Keret began writing, his psyche was certainly not in a healthy place. To be more precise, it was in a basement five floors underground, working completely alone for 48-hour shifts on a job the Israeli Army code-named Quasimodo...
After several court martials for insubordination and insulting an officer (“my parents brought me up to ask questions and to judge things morally, and in the army that gets you into trouble,” Keret explains), he was assigned to monitor a machine in the military purgatory. This at an age when most American students aren’t monitoring anything more complicated than a keg stand...
...isolation took its toll, Keret began talking to himself and, eventually, putting pen to paper. He describes the original drafts as “kind of half-a-letter, half-a-memoir, half-I don’t know.” He continued writing them, because everybody said it was good for him, but he said he knew that no one was interested in his work...
...Keret. Discovery of Ugaritic epics has cast new light on the poetic forms that were used by authors of the Biblical books-and made it clear that they were well aware of Canaanite mythology. The trials of Job, for example, are similar to those found in an epic about the legendary King Keret of Ugarit. While scholars are still arguing about the precise relationship of the two stories, they do agree that the still unfinished exploration of Ras Shamra is of immeasurable help in clarifying the message of the Old Testament...