Yoram Kaniuk (born 1930) is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic. His books have been translated into 25 languages and he is the recipient of many literary prizes.
Unlike Kafka's Joseph K., Kaniuk's Joseph Krieger is a warrior, a general in the Israeli army. Both protagonists, however, are trapped in a turmoil of irrational experience, social, political, and psychological. The overheated plot fixes on the mysterious disappearance of Krieger's soldier daughter. Because the characters seem to give depositions rather than share dialogue, their testimony slackens rather than winches the tension. Neverthleless, the obsessions that envelop Krieger and the others--love and death, heroism, nationalism and antinationalism--compel interest. Above all, the true mystery of the novel, the relations between parent and child, is explored with agonizing percipience. The letters Krieger receives from his missing daughter recall the devastating letters Kafka wrote--but never sent--to his father. The novel ends in inconclusive melodrama; but portions are unforgettable.
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