Personal Bible, National Epic

Amos Oz is an outstanding representative of Israeli literary “New Wave” writersrising in the1960s. He is also the Hebrew writer who has the most international influencein Israeli literary world. He has so far created12novels and published many collections ofshort stories and won several literary awards. This paper will systematically interpretsAmos Oz’s works from his autobiographical novel A Tale of Love and Darkness in thethree aspects of identity construction, historical memory and narrative discourse. Thispaper takes place in Oz’s other novels fields with some methods like comparative study,text reading and so on. It analyzes respectively characters’ identity construction, Diasporahistory and literary discourse in-depth, in order to grasp Oz’s novels in overall and tounderstand his works’ meanings and significances.The first chapter of this paper analyzes Amos Oz’mixed identity issues and reasonsthrough his family environment, social environment and political beliefs. Then combinedwith character images in Oz’s other text, to research the problems of Jewish identityconfusion and marginalization in his works. At last, start form the hero identity searchingand regressing in A Tale of Love and Darkness, It shows that in Oz’s opinion, life in IsraeliKibbutz is the real mind destination to Diaspora Jews.The second chapter reviews the history of Jewish Diaspora at first, tells the Jews’trauma left in the history of massacre in World War II, and their pain of homeless beendeported from various countries to Palestine. Through systematically analyzes the impactin characters’ fate of Novels, this chapter tells the impact of these complex political andhistorical issues on characters’ fate, especially focuses on the theme of ethnic relationshipbetween the Arab nation and Israel, and explores the important impact on the author in therelationship between Palestinians and Israelis.The third chapter mainly researches Oz’s writing strategies. Stylistically, Oz’s A Taleof Love and Darkness is the combination of real autobiography and fiction. The writer’s pen is always stroking between reality and imagination, reality and falsehood, thereby itanalyzes the space-time narrative structure, and also interprets metaphor, symbol and othermeans which appear repeatedly in the text, such as mirror and windows, slaying dragon,wild vegetable patch and so on. Understanding their deeper meanings has a vitalsignificance in in-depth understanding the whole novel.