The author Galia Oz, the author’s daughter Amos Oz, Who is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers in Israel, published today (Sunday) a new autobiographical book (“A thing disguised as love”) in which she tells about her relationship with her father. In this context, Oz revealed, among other things, that her father was violent towards her during her childhood.
“When I was a child, my father beat me, cursed and humiliated me,” Oz writes, adding: “The violence was creative: he dragged me out of the house and threw me on the doorstep outside. He called me filthy. “My crime was myself, so the punishment had no end. He needed to make sure I broke,” the writer’s daughter wrote.
“This book is about me,” she writes, “but I’m not alone. Houses like the house where I grew up are somehow floating in space, out of reach of social workers, out of the reach of revolutions like Mi Tu, without leaving a mark on social media. “They wisely encrypt their secrets like criminal organizations. To write about it I have no choice but to overcome the silence and secrecy, the habit of keeping everything in my stomach and the fear of what they will say. I do not really overcome, of course. But I write.”
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“Older people know, more or less, what makes a libel a criminal offense in the rulebook, but only those who have fallen victim to harassment, boycott, social bullying or a close relationship with a psychopath will be able to understand how lying on purpose has the power to localize and destroy a person,” she said. “Literally. Not nearly, not maybe, not roughly, not subject to interpretation.”