My Michael (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Amos Klausner
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1950-1960
- Setting: Jerusalem, Israel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Marriage, Depression, mental, Israel or Israelis, Jerusalem
- Locales: Jerusalem, Israel
Characters Discussed
Michael Gonen, the title character, born in 1926. He is a third-year geology student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem at the beginning of the novel, in 1950. Ten years later, when the novel ends, he is a relatively promising academic with his doctoral thesis just completed. A decent, diligent, unimaginative young man for whose academic success his father and aunts have great hopes, Michael falls in love with Hannah Greenbaum almost on first sight. She describes him as angular bodied with a long, lean, and dark face, gray eyes, short hair, and strong...
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