This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
Etgar KeretWriting is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
Etgar KeretOften in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.
Etgar KeretEven as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
Etgar Keret