That may be something trivial for most people, but for my parents, coming from this black hole of the Holocaust, that sense of continuation was a desire or fantasy, and I guess that was projected on to me.”
“It was a time at which I could look back and see my past, and look forward and see my future. “The seven good years were the years in which I was able to be both son to my father and father to my son,” explains Keret. Joseph, who is called on for an interpretation, explains that seven years of abundance are coming to Egypt, followed by seven years of famine. One night, the Pharaoh has a vision of seven fat-fleshed cows and seven lean and ugly cows standing by a river. T he title of the Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s new collection of essays, The Seven Good Years, comes from the biblical story of the Pharaoh’s dream.
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