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A. B. Yehoshua.
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Critical Essay by Eli Pfefferkorn
[Yehoshua] brings to his plays a knack for structural compactness, for manipulation of character and for creating a sense of an impending turning point. All these dra...
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Critical Essay by Dov Vardi
It seems that the Israeli's relentless self-scrutiny since the Yom Kippur War has found [in Ha-me'ahev (The Lover)] a quarry for what is tormenting him: the s...
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Critical Essay by Warren Bargad
In his fifteen-odd years of prose writing, Avraham B. Yehoshua has moved through three distinct phases. His first stories were brief, allegorical narratives, absurdist ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Alter
A vocal member of the disaffected Left in a country constantly straining under the pressures of political conflict, Mr. Yehoshua is acutely conscious of political issues...
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Critical Essay by Alfred Kazin
Missing connections, family anomie, and breakup inadmissible to Jewish piety and Israeli solidarity (but of course not exclusive of endless family discussions) are the f...
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Critical Essay by Robert Alter
[The following excerpt was taken from an essay which originally appeared in Commentary, June, 1969, entitled "New Israeli Fiction."]
For Amos Oz, and in a ...
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Critical Essay by Harold Bloom
"The question of the Golah (Exile) is the most important and profound question a Jew must pose to himself when trying to probe the essence of the Jewish people.&#...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Cohen
Faulkner's presence is everywhere felt in this remarkable novel ["A Late Divorce"]. It is a presence that both exhilarates and depresses, so sustain...
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Critical Essay by Leon Wieseltier
The most important decision that a writer must make is probably not the decision about subject. It is the decision about scale…. Scale, in this sense, is the m...
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Critical Essay by Hugh Nissenson
[In "Three Days and a Child," Yehoshua's] talent is immediately apparent. He has been influenced by Kafka and, like him, has managed to convey, by...
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Critical Essay by Jerome Greenfield
It is a depressing vision of the human condition that Yehoshua projects in [Three Days and a Child]. In each of its five stories attention is focused on a protagoni...
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Critical Essay by Harold Fisch
One of the most serious Israeli writers of the present generation … is A. B. Yehoshua, who is fortunately also a most competent storyteller. Yehoshua lacks as yet...
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Critical Essay by Anat Feinberg
For someone familiar with Yehoshua's short stories there is hardly any surprise in the fascination the theatrical medium has for this writer. For in each of his ...
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Critical Essay by Curtis Arnson
Regardless of the specific plot, there is a great deal of consistency between the early stories and Yehoshua's later work. In each of the stories [included in th...
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Critical Essay by William Novak
To live in Israel is to live with unremitting tension unremittingly; private life is intruded upon 24 hours a day by the real world in the form of hourly news broadcast...
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Critical Essay by Alan Mintz
Nostalgia for an idealized past, the frenzied search for a transcendent future—it is one of the marks of A. B. Yehoshua's achievement as a writer that he ref...
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Critical Essay by Nili Wachtel
Of the vast amount of critical commentary that followed publication of A. B. Yehoshua's latest work, The Lover, the majority dealt not so much with the literary m...
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Critical Essay by Eli Pfefferkorn
