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Joshua is actually Abraham Gabriel Joshua.
He belongs to a certain group of writers, a large part of whose persona is their public figure.
The character of the writer as having a political statement and a political presence was created in a.
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Joshua after the Six Day War, and especially after the Yom Kippur War.
He is fond of arguments and confrontations, and this has actually given his character a more human dimension.
There were those who said of him after his death that his wisdom was revealed in his literary writing, and not necessarily in his theories, when he decided to detail them.
Mostly he enjoys challenging the Jews of America.
This was a blatant position of denial of exile, even at a time when these wealthy Jews were appointing and subsidizing Israeli artists and intellectuals with the right attitudes.
Despite being a clear leftist, he also had uncompromising local Israeli patriotism.
The man who recognized his talent was Aharon Amir, editor of Keshet magazine, who published his stories over the years.
Among the first stories published by Joshua in the late 1950s was "Galia's wedding."
Pull some surreal element in the story of the revenge of three lovers on a coveted girl who marries someone else.
The surrealist element, the use of symbols, also characterized other stories of Joshua, until he abandoned the art of the short story - or novella - and began writing thick and lively novels.
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Joshua, unlike other great writers, has connections with literary critics and scholars, and as strange as it may sound, in a dialogue created following psychological literary analyzes he was on the affected side.
According to some testimonies, his writing has changed as a result of this connection.
One of these is Menachem Perry, who yesterday defined him as one of the "greats of Hebrew literature", because today there is no longer any Hebrew literature but "Israeli".
This is a very significant and probably true statement, part of the development in which there are no longer writers that the public eagerly awaits to hear.
As Nathan Zach accused the new Hebrew literature of being infected with a suicide epidemic, the scholar and critic Mordechai Shalev accused Joshua of "lying down one by one 'the' fathers' lying, at the end of the stories. .
His stories in the period up to the 1970s embodied the boundless aggression of sons towards fathers.
The confrontation is immense and violent, his correspondent.
These are stories like "In Front of the Forests" and "The Old Man's Death."
Despite the criticism that found this writing a bit didactic, Joshua foresaw the rise of intellectuals from the new wave, who suddenly discovered the "Nakba," the ruins of the villages.
Joshua may not have been attached to Amos Oz in his favor.
In any case, along with Oz he was one of the intellectuals who despite being very few, moved the Labor Party far to the left.
Life in Israel after the stain of these creators is more empty.
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