In Praise of Normality
A. B. Yehoshua
1980
The attempt I have made to realign these concepts does not, of course, do away with the conflicts, tensions, cultural struggles, and constant inputs and reequilibrations of problems of identity. All it does, I think, is establish a more correct framework for struggles of this sort, which take place among all peoples and in all countries. We, who…
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