Gifted Israeli author, Amos Oz (born 1939), achieved international regard as a novelist and short story writer, as well as the author of political non-fiction. Born in 1939 to well-read parents who had emigrated from Europe several years earlier, Amos...

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In the following essay, Balaban provides analysis of several of Oz's early stories, tracing the development of his characterization, symbolism, and central thematic concerns.

In the following excerpt, Balaban provides a religious interpretation of the stories in Where the Jackals Howl, and Other Stories and traces the influence of the philosophy of Spinoza, the psychoanalytic theory of Carl Jung, and the panentheism of Schelling on Oz's fiction.

In the following essay, Balaban discusses the tactics Oz uses to “bridge the gap between language and reality” in his short story “Before His Time.”