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I write in words. and my words are hebrew words.
-Amos Oz
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I Write In Words. And My Words

Amos Oz
I write in words. and my words are hebrew words.
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My musical instrument is hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. i write in words. i don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors. i write in words. and my words are hebrew words.
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I work in hebrew. hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. not now, for the last three thousand years, hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient semitic languages - by aramaic, by greek, by latin, by arabic, by yiddish, by latino, by german, by russian, by english, i could go on and on. it's very much like english. the english language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - latin, french, nordic languages, german, scandinavian languages. every language has influences and is an influence.
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German accents and hassidic accents aren't that romantic. they're more harsh. although hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. there's this beautiful woman i know who speaks hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. maybe it's who's speaking it.
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There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into hebrew and vice versa. hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the english system of tenses, probably different than any european system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time. so, things can be translated, but they become different.
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Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. the very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from hebrew into english or from english into hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.
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