Lives of the Dead: Collected Poems (Arc Translations) - Softcover

Hanoch Levin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908376643 ISBN 13: 9781908376640

Publisher: Arc Publications, 2018

Synopsis

When Lives of the Dead was published in Israel, it proved to be enormously popular, went through three editions in its first year and has continued to be reprinted ever since.

Hanoch Levin s poetry forms only a single volume in his collected works, which run to fifteen volumes of drama and prose. His poetic voice however mordant, witty, irreverent, erotic and highly satirical, yet also whimsical and delicate is arresting, distinctive and unusual.

This bilingual edition makes his poetry available to an English-lanugage readership for the first time.

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About the Author

Hanoch Levin (1943 1999) was born in Palestine to Holocaust survivors from Poland. Originally a poet, he exploded onto the Israeli theatre scene in 1968 with his play You, Me and the Next War, a sharp critique of the 1967 Six-Day War. The play was extremely controversial and the run ended when some of the actors refused to play their parts. Levin continued to make a name for himself by writing and directing plays that critiqued Israeli society. When his denunciation of the Golda Meir administration, The Queen of the Bathtub, opened in 1970, demonstrations again led to a premature closing. As a consequence, Levin withdrew from the public eye, although he continued writing (50 plays in total, 34 of which were produced), directing many of these plays himself. He continued working until the very end, holding auditions for his newest play from his hospital bed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arc Publications
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908376643
• ISBN 13: 9781908376640
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80