At first it was felt that writing a book after October 7, 2023 is barbaric, Israeli author Aylet Gundan-Gochane said, “When we have a hostage, we have away from their families in Israel, and are running in Gaza, and will you allow you to participate in a different world in a different world?
Then came the turn that removed his hesitation: when Israeli official officials called for boycotting books and films, which portrays Palestinians in a human way. “For me, it was a moment where I thought, ‘Wait a minute. Well -wing, fascist, are afraid of words. They really believe that words can change something.” I thought: ‘Okay, if fascist is very afraid of words, it might be used as a weapon, “he said. “Not to avoid reality with words, not in the form of escapeism – quite opposite. As a way to face reality.”
Israel’s psychological profile
Gundar-Gochane then resumed work on his most recent novel, which he started long ago: it was published in German under the title “uninvited guests” (uninvited guest) in this summer.
In the novel, the Israeli child drops a hammer from a balcony, kills a teenage boy. A Palestinian construction worker who was working on that balcony was arrested. The mother of the little boy remains silent. It is as follows that Israeli is a drama about the crime, denial and revenge of the society, which is trapped in a deadly cycle of Gundar-Goshen “others”.
Aylet Gundar-Goshen is not just a novelist; So a psychiatrist. In her writing, she detects the hidden mechanism – which she has discovered in himself. A few years ago, when she was a young mother, a Palestinian laborer was working in her house. Suddenly a news report came: His Israeli employer was killed by a Palestinian worker. “The room was accused of fear. Just as you can sniff the fear. And after a minute, I realized that he is as scared of me as I am afraid of him, because he knows that I can call the Israeli police and say, ‘Listen, I have a worker here and I am not safe.” They will come in two minutes and take it.
Trauma
His novel publishes hidden psychological dynamics that are shaping Israel-Pilstinian life everyday. Gundar-Gochane says, “The fact that you understand yourself as a potential prey,” Gundar-Goshen says, “You are ready to be an aggressive.”
She bears her medical attitude in her work as a writer; Not a judge, but is trying to understand why people do this. “I am thinking about how difficult it is for people to accept the terrible trauma of October 7 – which cannot be justified, can never be appropriate – but at the same time at the same time the terrible trauma commits the frightening trauma palestinians, while the families of the hostage continue to be traumatized.
Aylet Gundar-Goshen is quite alone in expanding sympathy for both sides. A globally warm debate in the global noise of his voices sinks: fought several times with violence, but more often with opposition; Political litmus test; To cancel artists, intellectuals and musicians from both sides.
In Israel themselves, the kind of important self-discipline that goes-gum-gocin practices really have no chance to create a success, which makes it more important. She says that she is trying to find out her own blind spot, “and quite me that my blind spots are universal blind spots that we have. If we do not do well, then to really look at ourselves in the mirror, we will never well to change anything.”
Writing is not enough in itself
According to him, there is a lot that needs to be changed. She regularly participates in demonstrations: against Netanyahu’s government, for the return of hostages, and for the end of the war. For her, therefore, therefore, there may be a form of resistance – but she insists that literary resistance is not enough in itself: “I would say that it is not enough. And you have to work in this, shouting your feet in the street, in the street, and your writing body – and your entry body will have to work in it.”
Aylet Gundar-Goshen has not left hop for change and harmony. In fact, given history, he is not even pessimistic. “I am not pessimistic – because I am thinking. I am looking at history. I am looking at the fact that I am in Berlin right now: Okay, we are interviewing this in Berlin, and if I told my grandfather -grandfather a few years ago that I am sitting here, they believe that it is not right, is it not right?
This article was original in German.