{"id":95,"date":"2019-10-31T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2020-04-21T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T18:57:45","slug":"2-life-writer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/home\/2-life-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"2 &#8211; Life Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Self-revelation is a focus of Alan Kaufman\u2019s writing, whether in straightforward memoirs&nbsp;<em>Jew Boy&nbsp;<\/em>(2000) and&nbsp;<em>Drunken Angel<\/em>&nbsp;(2011), or the novel&nbsp;<em>Matches<\/em>, loosely based on his experiences in the Israeli Defense Forces (1979-1984).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Todd Follett interviewed Alan Kaufman in 2015 for&nbsp;<em>Switchback<\/em>, the online journal of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at the University of San Francisco, exploring the \u201coutlaw\u201d identity in Kaufman\u2019s multi-faceted writing career as a memoirist, poet, novelist, and editor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaufman relayed the intensity of his personal, very spiritual journey in his interview with Follett:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>To be an Outlaw poet or writer means not only to seek to become free in oneself through writing, but also to show others the ways to attain liberation through that unsparing portrayal of the truth about one&#8217;s own life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u2026 The urge to find truth in self-reflection indeed changed my life and so then my writing, however the habit was not always with me.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u2026 For a long time literature served as a form of personal escape, the career of &#8220;writer&#8221; a culturally-approved legitimization of my right to avoid not only self-reflection but to reject altogether any sort of responsibility for my personal conduct.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u2026 The Holocaust brought me back to earth.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Self-revelation is a focus of Alan Kaufman\u2019s writing, whether in straightforward memoirs&nbsp;Jew Boy&nbsp;(2000) and&nbsp;Drunken Angel&nbsp;(2011), or the novel&nbsp;Matches, loosely based on his experiences in the Israeli Defense Forces (1979-1984). Todd Follett interviewed Alan Kaufman in 2015 for&nbsp;Switchback, the online journal of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":90,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/141"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alan-kaufman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}