Download A Table For One: Under The Light Of Jerusalem Generated By Aharon Appelfeld Shown In Hardcover

is a book for people who are interested in Appelfeld's personality and desire insight into how his writing style developed as well as the people and the city which influenced him.
It is also a book for people interested in the early years of the State Of Israel, Jerusalem in particular,

Appelfeld arrived in Jerusalem at the age of, afteryears of living in the forests of the Carpathian mountains, He describes having felt like "prey running always from the hunter, " At agehe saw his mother murdered and was almost murdered himself, He was reunited with his father in Jerusalem, Upon arrival in Israel he had no ambitions to become a writer, He studied for two and a half years in Youth Aliyah and then did his army service, His ambition, or "illusion" as he calls it, was to become an Israeli, He tried to harden his body through various "unpleasant physical exertions," but his body would not change, So, his first attempts at writing were to bring about in words what he" couldn't bring about in life, " He hangs out at Cafe Peter which to him "was more than a home, "

"The people who frequented Cafe Peter in those years had come from Transylvania, Hungary, Bukovina, and Bulgaria they spoke the languages of the AustroHungarian Empire, particularly German.
Everything there the taste of the food, the manners, the tone of speech, the silence between the sentenceswas just as it had been at home, . No sooner was I through the doorway, than I knew that these people were my lost uncles and cousins, I was so enchanted by the place that whenever I had a spare hour I would rush over, and sit there spellbound, "

Cafe Peter was not the only cafe that Appelfeld would frequent and favor, but it was his first, Cafe Peter was Appelfeld's" first school for writing, " He spoke to other emigres, watched, listened and learned, He wrote his first book there, At Cafe Peter he learns that his "homeland is not the land of the 'Hebrew Revolution' but that of the emigres, "

All exiles had their favorite cafes, homes away from their now nonexistent homes in Europe, They would gather there every day to talk or just to have a place to think, write, observe other people or to socialize, Appelfeld met other writers in the cafe world and several of them taught him about writing, He met and learned from all of the great writers in Jerusalem at that time, including S, Y. Agnon and Gershom Sholem.

Applefeld would reward himself for writing a good page by taking walks to places he loved, Some of these places were the homes of good friends, like Leib Rochman, a Yiddish writer, Or he would walk around his own neighborhood, Rehavia, alone at night, Sometimes he would walk with friends through different neighborhoods in Jerusalem enjoying the peculiarities of each one,

For a rare glimpse in to this writer's feelings about himself, his writing and the city he loves, this brief memoir is a must, A TABLE FOR ONE is set in the intimate Jerusalem cafes of thes ands, where the scent of the fresh roasted coffee and cigarette smoke wafted in with the elan of a lost European culture.
Appelfeld found that it was only in a cafe and only in a Jerusalem cafe that he could write his novels, shaping meaning and wholeness out of the fragments of his painful past.
A TABLE FOR ONE is an interchange between one artist and another, father and son, about their city, Jerusalem, It brings together an unknown side of Aharon Appelfeld's writing, with the subtle, haunting paintings of his son, Meir Appelfeld, who studied fine art at the Royal Academy of Art, London, and exhibits widely.
Simply the best book about writing ever written, It demands to be read and re read The best book on writing and art I have read since Hemingways “Moveable

Feast”, AHARON APPELFELD is the author of than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Until the Dawns Light and The Iron Tracks both winners of the National Jewish Book Award and The Story of a Life winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger.
Other honors he has received include the Giovanni Bocaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth Award.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received honorary degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, and Yeshiva University.
AHARON APPELFELD is the author of than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Until the Dawn's Light and The Iron Tracks both winners of the National Jewish Book Award and The Story of a Life winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger.
Other honors he has received include the Giovanni Bocaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth Award.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received honorary degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, and Yeshiva University.
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