Shlomo Kalo
Shlomo Kalo (Hebrew שלמה קאלו; * 1928 in Sofia) is an Israeli writer and philosopher. The former microbiologist since the 1950s has published more than 60 works, including novels, short stories and non-fiction.
Biography
Shlomo Kalo was born in 1928 in Bulgaria. Even as a child he took part in the anti-fascist movement before he was interned with 15 years in a concentration camp. As a youth he devoted himself to poetry and was awarded 18 years in a competition. After the Second World War he worked as a journalist in Prague, where Kalo studied medicine. In 1949 he emigrated to Israel. There he studied microbiology at the University of Tel Aviv. Later Kalo served as director of the medical laboratories of Israel's largest health center.
Published in 1954 Kalo Alcove in Jaffa first short story collection. 1962 saw the ha - Aremah his debut novel. Since then, Kalo has published more than 60 books, including both autobiographical novels, and philosophical works on spiritual topics, such as Buddhism or Zen teachings and translations into Hebrew (including the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, 1981). In 1969 he experienced a personal enlightenment, which he still thematized in the autobiographical work Eral in the same year. With the works of the self as a warrior (1979) and Fearless Shui ( 1981), he established himself in Israel as a spiritual thinker.
As a turning point in the history of Hebrew literature is considered to be novel The Heap, who is understood as a neo- modernist social protest of a migrant and moved to the vicinity of authors such as Abraham B. Jehoshua. The work is conceived as a collection of anecdotes about a group of immigrants of different nationalities, who prior to their emigration to Israel but an uneventful, but led productive lives. In the new home, job seekers fall into an existential crisis and make it either individually or jointly to eliminate a mountain of waste, as directed by the council. The same heap represents the beginning of the modernist novel in Israel and marked the dawn of Ashkenazi and Sephardic authors of the Sephardic immigrant community adopted a common theme.
Kalos short stories are short on detail and characterized by an ultra -economical style. The author is liable for deliberate repetition, often single words, which leaves a hypnotic effect with the reader. The short stories in the 1999 translated into English band The Dollar and the Gun (1999) are in all parts of the world, from America, Europe, the Middle East located up in the Orient and the act of outcasts, which include man-eating cannibals, as well as the terrorist Osama bin Laden.
Shlomo Kalo lives quietly in retirement in Jaffa.