![]() This activity of moving through genres without preaching was like a Big Bang for me.” It was both horrible and humorous at the same time-an autobiography and science fiction book. “Reading ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in the army was the best time to do that,” he said. ![]() Keret said when he began writing during his army service, he read Kafka and Vonnegut. His oeuvre is not particularly Israeli in theme either, although he writes in his native Hebrew. While Keret worries about his country and sees “a scenario in which we could destroy ourselves,” strictly speaking his work is not political. Those writers took on archetypal themes of war and peace and Arab and Israel co-existence. ![]() ![]() Over the years, Keret has been regarded as a literary trickster whose work didn’t have as much gravitas as that of his writing elders Amos Oz, David Grossman or A.B. ![]()
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