Amos Oz: I will not die unless I win the Nobel Prize

"I won't die unhappy if I don't win the Nobel Prize," said the distinguished Israeli writer Amos Oz, who the night before last was a guest at Fraktura's panel of "Reveals" in Zagreb's "Europa" cinema, reports Večernji list.

More than six hundred people who filled "Europa" to the brim enjoyed Oz's lucid conversation with Srećko Horvat for almost two hours.

"As a writer, I have the only obligation to never write the same book twice. That is increasingly difficult after twenty books have been written," said the charming Israeli writer to the Zagreb audience, who often greeted his answers with applause.

Oz received spontaneous applause when he said that the unrest in Arab countries was also caused by the bad attitude towards women. And there was applause when he stated that Israeli politicians like to invite writers, ask them where they went wrong, listen to their advice and then completely ignore them.

Oz presented the novel "Stories of Love and Darkness", which has been translated into twenty languages, as a story about parents and their unrequited love for Europe, saying that the Arabic translation of that novel is the most precious to him.

Thirty years in a kibbutz

"In the XNUMXs, the only Europeans in Europe were Jews, and my parents were among them. Others were Bulgarian or Spanish nationalists. Fortunately, the parents were driven to Jerusalem, because otherwise Europe would have executed them in the forties," said Oz, speaking openly about his mother's suicide when he was twelve years old.

Maybe the idea of ​​voluntary socialism in which there are no police stations or coercion will be realized in another country", thinks the author who likes to live in the desert of Arad.

"It was hard for me when I left my father at the age of fourteen and went to the kibbutz where I stayed for thirty years. "Later, I did the job that my father, a polyglot who understood seventeen languages, would have chosen for me," said Oz. He told how he wrote the novel "My Michael" in the kibbutz in the toilet, during the night, in the dark, because they lived in a one-room apartment.

Later, in the kibbutz, they gave him one, and then another, day to write when they saw that writing could contribute something to the community.

"I think that the idea of ​​kibbutzim is not dead, although in Israel there are fewer and fewer of them due to materialistic life. Maybe the idea of ​​voluntary socialism in which there is no police station or coercion will be realized in another country", thinks the author who likes to live in the desert Arad and who learned everything he learned about people in the kibbutz.

Oz confirmed that actress Natalie Portman bought the rights to make a film based on the novel "Tales of Love and Darkness" and that he approved the script.