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Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld is an Israeli novelist known for his profound reflections on the Holocaust and his unique literary style. His works often depict historical events from the perspective of Jews, particularly the life during World War II. more

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“Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.”

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Book:The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998
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“A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.”

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Author:Paul Celan
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