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יומנו של איש תמהוני, יליד מושבה ותיקה בגליל, שבמרכזו פרשיות יחסים עגומות וקומיות כאחד, בינו לבין אמנית תל אביבית, ובינו לבין אימו, אשה בעלת שורשים עמוקים בתרבות הארצישראלית.
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231 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1982
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About the author
Aharon Megged
32 books3 followersAharon Megged (Hebrew: אהרון מגד) (10 August 1920 – 23 March 2016) (Hebrew year 5680) was an Israeli author and playwright. In 2003, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.
Aharon Greenberg (later Megged) was born in 1920 in Włocławek, Poland. In 1926, he immigrated with his parents to Mandate Palestine. He grew up in Ra'anana, attending Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv. After graduation, he joined a Zionist pioneering youth movement, training at Kibbutz Giv'at Brenner. He was a member of Kibbutz Sdot Yam for twelve years.
Megged was married to author Ida Tsurit, with whom he had two children, Eyal Megged, also a writer, and Amos Megged, a lecturer in history at University of Haifa.
Megged was one of the founders of the Masa literary weekly, and served as its editor for fifteen years. He worked as a literary editor for theHebrew newspapers La-merhav and Davar. In 1977/78 he was author-in-residence at the Center for Hebrew Studies affiliated with Oxford University. He made several lecture tours of the United States, and was also author-in-residence at the University of Iowa. He published 35 books.
Megged's plays were performed at Habima, Ha-Ohel and other theaters. His books have been translated into numerous languages and published in the United Kingdom, the United States, Argentina, France, and other countries.
From 1968 to 1971, Megged served as cultural attaché to the Israeli embassy in London.
In 1974, Megged won the Bialik Prize for his books The Evyatar Notebooks: a novel and Of Trees and Stones.
In 2003, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.
Megged won the Brenner Prize, the S.Y. Agnon Prize, and the Prime Minister's Prize.
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Aharon Greenberg (later Megged) was born in 1920 in Włocławek, Poland. In 1926, he immigrated with his parents to Mandate Palestine. He grew up in Ra'anana, attending Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv. After graduation, he joined a Zionist pioneering youth movement, training at Kibbutz Giv'at Brenner. He was a member of Kibbutz Sdot Yam for twelve years.
Megged was married to author Ida Tsurit, with whom he had two children, Eyal Megged, also a writer, and Amos Megged, a lecturer in history at University of Haifa.
Megged was one of the founders of the Masa literary weekly, and served as its editor for fifteen years. He worked as a literary editor for theHebrew newspapers La-merhav and Davar. In 1977/78 he was author-in-residence at the Center for Hebrew Studies affiliated with Oxford University. He made several lecture tours of the United States, and was also author-in-residence at the University of Iowa. He published 35 books.
Megged's plays were performed at Habima, Ha-Ohel and other theaters. His books have been translated into numerous languages and published in the United Kingdom, the United States, Argentina, France, and other countries.
From 1968 to 1971, Megged served as cultural attaché to the Israeli embassy in London.
In 1974, Megged won the Bialik Prize for his books The Evyatar Notebooks: a novel and Of Trees and Stones.
In 2003, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.
Megged won the Brenner Prize, the S.Y. Agnon Prize, and the Prime Minister's Prize.
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February 10, 2024
ספר... פנומנלי.
הכתיבה מלאת הרוגע והכמעט-תום של אהרן מגד משרה על הספר אווירה נדירה של חיבור רגשי עמוק אל הדמות הראשית, אל התלאות בהן הוא נתקל ואל קשריו עם שאר הדמויות.
הייחוד של מגד מבחינתי בולט בבחירה שלו לא לשקוע אל תוך עלילה סבוכה ומרשימה טכנית, אלא לתת לקורא הזדמנות לשקוע בתוך הדמויות עצמן, שב"מקרה" חולקות עלילה משותפת. הדמות של עשהאל מדהימה, נוגעת ללב וקונה את ליבו של כל קורא
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הכתיבה מלאת הרוגע והכמעט-תום של אהרן מגד משרה על הספר אווירה נדירה של חיבור רגשי עמוק אל הדמות הראשית, אל התלאות בהן הוא נתקל ואל קשריו עם שאר הדמויות.
הייחוד של מגד מבחינתי בולט בבחירה שלו לא לשקוע אל תוך עלילה סבוכה ומרשימה טכנית, אלא לתת לקורא הזדמנות לשקוע בתוך הדמויות עצמן, שב"מקרה" חולקות עלילה משותפת. הדמות של עשהאל מדהימה, נוגעת ללב וקונה את ליבו של כל קורא
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February 12, 2018Loved the Kirkus Review from Jan. 12, 1981:
KIRKUS REVIEW
Far superior to A Short Life (1980), Megged's new novel centers on Asahel Halperin--who works as a statistician in Tel Aviv. Asahel is part of a vaguely artistic/bohemian crowd; he was once briefly married; he has a fierce, independent, and highly intellectual mother living widowed in a small Galilee village. And he himself trusts in auras and illuminations to more or less ""gentle"" his way through life. As such, Asahel is like no one else he knows--certainly not like his bristling mother. . . nor like Aya, a 30-ish artist whom he loves (but who is smitten instead with a young Druse painter). . . nor like Efraim, a rival suitor of Aya's who regularly belittles the quiet Asahel. True, presented in the form of Asahel's diaries, the book traverses a not-very-eventful year: parties; humiliations; desolations (the spiritual emptiness of Aya, her driven dissatisfaction, is especially palpable); then, finally, the death of Asahel's mother--as Asahel returns to the Galilee, with his cat, to start in on a new life that will perhaps be more congruent with his idiosyncratic nature. But if nothing much happens in this novel, it's also never uninteresting: Asahel's character--so different than that of most modern Israelis in fiction--complements his mother's, that fiery pioneer sensibility and curiosity. And the result is an unusual study in personality--always intriguing, often quite involving.
KIRKUS REVIEW
Far superior to A Short Life (1980), Megged's new novel centers on Asahel Halperin--who works as a statistician in Tel Aviv. Asahel is part of a vaguely artistic/bohemian crowd; he was once briefly married; he has a fierce, independent, and highly intellectual mother living widowed in a small Galilee village. And he himself trusts in auras and illuminations to more or less ""gentle"" his way through life. As such, Asahel is like no one else he knows--certainly not like his bristling mother. . . nor like Aya, a 30-ish artist whom he loves (but who is smitten instead with a young Druse painter). . . nor like Efraim, a rival suitor of Aya's who regularly belittles the quiet Asahel. True, presented in the form of Asahel's diaries, the book traverses a not-very-eventful year: parties; humiliations; desolations (the spiritual emptiness of Aya, her driven dissatisfaction, is especially palpable); then, finally, the death of Asahel's mother--as Asahel returns to the Galilee, with his cat, to start in on a new life that will perhaps be more congruent with his idiosyncratic nature. But if nothing much happens in this novel, it's also never uninteresting: Asahel's character--so different than that of most modern Israelis in fiction--complements his mother's, that fiery pioneer sensibility and curiosity. And the result is an unusual study in personality--always intriguing, often quite involving.
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