האוטוביוגרפיה של ז'אן ריבן

Looking back on a turbulent life of risk and experiment, the writer strips off one layer of self after another: the tailor's boy in a Romanian village under communism; the youth left without footing when his mother died; the newcomer who reached Ashdod with no language and hardly any parents, and slowly became an Israeli and a Hebrew poet; a gay man living love between rapture and shame; an alcoholic; a mystic searching myth and Kabbalah; and the artist living in order to watch.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

233 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Romania, Israel

First published

2015 by Afik

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9789657628171 (original)