THE IMAGE OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN OTHER IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF AMOS OZ’S “A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS”
THE IMAGE OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN OTHER IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF AMOS OZ’S “A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS”

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the presentation of the British and American alterity in Amos Oz’s autobiographical work “A Tale of Love and Darkness”. It explores the ways in which England and America are seen by the cultivated inhabitants of a rather poor neighbourhood in Jerusalem, and how this idealized perception from a distance, especially of England, is contradicted by the actual reality nearby. Then we shall focus on the role the United Kingdom and the United States played in the appearance of the state of Israel. The role British and American literature had in the formation of the future writer, but also the indirect role the British and the Americans had in his initiation into adulthood will also be briefly analysed.

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