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Article: The 'Last Jewish Writer': An Interview With Aharon Appelfeld
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- May 27, 1994
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Susan Miron
Forward
05-27-1994
The `Last Jewish Writer': An Interview With Aharon Appelfeld.
`My task as an artist was not to develop my imagination but to restrain it," Aharon Appelfeld tells the Forward in a Manhattan coffee shop not far from New York University, where the Israeli writer spent last semester as a visiting professor. "Of course," Mr. Appelfeld continues, "the reality of the Holocaust surpassed any imagination. If I remained true to the facts, no one would believe me."
Mr. Appelfeld, while acknowledging that "my real world was far beyond the power of imagination," has managed, through understatement and ellipsis, to create an invented reality of astonishing power. In more ...