It tells the story of the journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, back to his wife Penelope, after the end of Trojan war. To be honest, it is only after the very recent new translation into Hebrew that I began to grasp the beauty of this intimidating masterpiece. Let’s start with the classics, the ones that we all know but never bother to read. It is from the bloody wrestle between Eros and Thanatos – or from the sweaty coitus of these two – that literature is born. Man’s capacity for love, compassion and creation clash with humankind’s ability to destroy, crash and kill. Novels that combine love and war set up two eternal rivals on the battlefield: Eros and Thanatos. My novel One Night, Markovitch starts on the eve of the second world war, when two men are sent to Europe to enter fraudulent marriages with Jewish women and get them out before it’s too late.
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