Volume 41, Number 10 · May 26, 1994
In the Promised Land
By Patricia Storace
Fima
by Amos Oz, translated by Nicolas de Lange
Harcourt Brace/A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, 322 pp., $22.95
Fima, short for Efraim, Nisan, the hero of Amos Oz's new novel, is a present-day native of 1989 Jerusalem, a city where men (if not women), at least in the world of the book, are all 'half prophet, half prime minister.' With more gift for rhetoric than for attentiveness, Fima is an encyclopedic talker. He debates politics with strangers in coffee shops, wakes friends for urgent monologues on the poems of Amir Gilboa, and electrifies imaginary cabinet meetings with daring analyses of Israeli-Palestinian politics. He even attempts, without notable success, to initiate philosophical dialogues with his penis.
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