{"id":119922,"date":"2018-01-04T16:11:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=119922"},"modified":"2018-01-05T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T18:10:45","slug":"aharon-appelfeld-you-cannot-be-a-writer-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/04\/aharon-appelfeld-you-cannot-be-a-writer-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Aharon Appelfeld: You Cannot Be a Writer of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_119923\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ct-aharon-appelfeld-jpg-20140508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119923\" class=\"wp-image-119923 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ct-aharon-appelfeld-jpg-20140508-1024x630.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ct-aharon-appelfeld-jpg-20140508-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ct-aharon-appelfeld-jpg-20140508-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ct-aharon-appelfeld-jpg-20140508-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ct-aharon-appelfeld-jpg-20140508.jpg 1413w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aharon Appelfeld.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You know, God is everywhere. He is in the human heart. He is in the plants. He is in the animals. Everywhere. You have to be very careful when you speak to human beings because the man who is standing in front of you has something divine in himself. Trees, they have something divine in them. Animals of course. And even objects, they have something of the divine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Aharon Appelfeld, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6324\/aharon-appelfeld-the-art-of-fiction-no-224-aharon-appelfeld\" target=\"_blank\">The Art of Fiction No. 224<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aharon Appelfeld, one of Israel\u2019s foremost contemporary writers, died today at the age of eighty-five.<\/p>\n<p>Appelfeld was the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and memoir,\u00a0many of which derived their inspiration and force from his childhood in war-torn Europe. He\u00a0was born in Romania, where he was apprehended by Nazi-allied forces at the age of nine. His mother and grandmother were shot, and\u00a0he and his father were eventually sent to the Transnistria concentration camps. Appelfeld described his internment there as a kind of transformation: \u201cI became a small animal. It was the wish for life, the wish to survive.\u201d In 1942, he managed to escape; he spent two years in hiding. At one point, he lived in the forest among a band of thieves, and, later, in the home of a Ukrainian prostitute. He joined the Soviet army, spent time in a displaced persons camp in Italy, and finally\u00a0immigrated to Palestine in 1946, at age fifteen. Nearly a decade later, after spotting his father\u2019s name on a list of survivors, they were reunited in Israel.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Appelfeld renounced German and studied Hebrew, which became his primary writing language. His writing gained recognition, both in Israel and abroad,\u00a0and was awarded France\u2019s Prix M\u00e9dicis for his autobiography\u00a0<i>Story of a Life<\/i>; the book was also\u00a0shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.\u00a0<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Although the historical and personal traumas of World War II are central to his work, Appelfeld did not identify as a Holocaust writer. \u201cYou cannot be a writer of death,\u201d he said. \u201cWriting means you\u2019re alive.\u201d Philip Roth described him as \u201ca displaced writer of displaced fiction, who has made of displacement and disorientation a subject uniquely his own.\u201d In\u00a0his Art of Fiction interview, Appelfeld discussed his childhood, his love of the sensual act of writing on paper, his kinship with Kafka, and his relationship to Judaism. \u201cReally,\u201d he said, \u201cmy devotion to writing is my religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6324\/aharon-appelfeld-the-art-of-fiction-no-224-aharon-appelfeld\" target=\"_blank\">Read\u00a0our full Art of Fiction interview with Appelfield\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, God is everywhere. 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