Acest eseu, prima opera postuma a lui Amos Oz, avand ca punct de pornire o prelegere sustinuta in 2017 la Berlin, in cadrul unei conferinte, reia una dintre temele care l-au preocupat cu precadere in ultima parte a vietii pe marele scriitor israelian - aceea a tradatorului - si careia i-a dedicat, in primul rand, un intreg roman, Iuda. Relatia profund perturbata dintre iudaism si crestinism isi gaseste corespondentul in cea dintre Isus si Iuda, relatie regandita de Amos Oz intr-o maniera intima, din interiorul unei mosteniri culturale si religioase pe care o impartaseste cu ambii protagonisti ai povestii biblice. Oz redeschide o tema despre care fratele bunicului sau, Joseph Klausner, profesor universitar si autor a doua carti controversate dedicate aparitiei crestinismului, scrisese la inceputul secolului XX. Detectand si analizand cu multa delicatete si franchete fisurile de la nivelul narativului Evangheliilor, eseul de fata recupereaza figura biblica a lui Iuda si o resemnifica.
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Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He was also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He was regarded as Israel's most famous living author. Oz's work has been published in 42 languages in 43 countries, and has received many honours and awards, among them the Legion of Honour of France, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Israel Prize. In 2007, a selection from the Chinese translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness was the first work of modern Hebrew literature to appear in an official Chinese textbook. Since 1967, Oz had been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
