Further Up the Path

by Daniel Oz, Jessica Cohen (Translator)

Overview

Presented bilingually with a new English translation by Man Booker Prize-winning translator Jessica Cohen, these brief fables by Israeli author Daniel Oz engage with vast concepts about human nature. Full of timeless, open-ended parables, Further Up the Path offers no answers, moralizing, or conclusion: only an uneasy bewilderment with the paradoxes of the human—and animal—condition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942683933
Publisher:	BOA Editions, Ltd.
Publication date:	11/05/2019
Series:	New American Translations , #14
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,149,000
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Daniel Yehuda Arié Oz is an Israeli-born musician and the author of four books of Hebrew poetry and micro-fiction. Translations of his work have appeared in such journals as World Literature Today, Italy's Poesia, Poland's Fraza, China’s Foreign Literature and Art, as well as publications in Arabic, Russian, German, Georgian, and Slovenian. In the 2000s, Oz was the founder and lead composer of the Tel-Aviv-based Jazz quintet The Submarine Keys. He was a member of the Israeli poet’s protest collective Guerrilla Tarbut, and he is currently the co-editor with Eran Hada of the Israeli indie press Gnat.

Jessica Cohen is a literary translator born in England, raised in Israel, and living in Denver. She translates contemporary Israeli prose, poetry, and other creative work. She shared the 2017 Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman, for her translation of A Horse Walks Into a Bar. Her translations include works by major Israeli writers including Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Dorit Rabinyan, Ronit Matalon, and Nir Baram, as well as Golden Globe-winning director Ari Folman. She is a past board member of the American Literary Translators Association and has served as a judge for the National Translation Award.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Just as folk tales and even children’s fairy tales—or perhaps fairy tales that became children’s once humanity matured—are intended to decipher latent riddles and explain them in an experiential rather than theoretical way, so do Daniel Oz’s fables.”


—Dorit Zilberman

“Daniel Oz’s collection of flash fables, Further Up the Path, is charming for the way they make the familiar strange and the strange familiar. These pieces of prose poetry blend two frames of reference, creating a new world.”

—Marcela Sulak, host of Israel in Translation

“Welcome to the world of Daniel Oz, dear readers. It is a place populated by unlikely characters who are just as lost and unsure as you and I. But perhaps there is a blessing in all these uncertainties. Perhaps what we don’t know will save us. In these tales—these flashes of recognition—Daniel Oz joins the tradition that begins with the Old Testament and goes all the way to Kafka and Borges to our days. It is a tradition in which a moment enters and we briefly see the lyric flame inside it.”

—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic

Editorial Reviews

Narrative in miniature is a high-wire act. It's easy for a writer to step out boldly only to tip into triteness or ersatz profundity. Oz's more successful pieces are both whimsical and humane…At his best…Oz walks the high wire into an alternate universe, then turns out his pockets to reveal our human foibles.

The New York Times Book Review - Rachel Kadish

Just as folk tales and even children’s fairy tales—or perhaps fairy tales that became children’s once humanity matured—are intended to decipher latent riddles and explain them in an experiential rather than theoretical way, so do Daniel Oz’s fables.”
—Dorit Zilberman

“Daniel Oz’s collection of flash fables, Further Up the Path, is charming for the way they make the familiar strange and the strange familiar. These pieces of prose poetry blend two frames of reference, creating a new world.”
—Marcela Sulak, host of Israel in Translation

“Welcome to the world of Daniel Oz, dear readers. It is a place populated by unlikely characters who are just as lost and unsure as you and I. But perhaps there is a blessing in all these uncertainties. Perhaps what we don’t know will save us. In these tales—these flashes of recognition—Daniel Oz joins the tradition that begins with the Old Testament and goes all the way to Kafka and Borges to our days. It is a tradition in which a moment enters and we briefly see the lyric flame inside it.”

—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic

From the Publisher