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כל כתבי חנוך לוין
הג'יגולו מקונגו
"חנוך לוין - מערכונים ופזמונים- הג'יגולו מקונגו ואחרים"- הספר השני בסידרת המערכונים והפזמונים של חנוך לוין. זו סידרה המקיפה את מכלול יצירותיו של חנוך לוין וכוללת את כל המחזות, הסאטירות, פרקי הפרוזה, השירים, המערכונים, הפזמונים והתסריטים הקצרים שכתב חנוך לוין עד היום. מחזות 1 - חפץ ואחרים. מחזות 2 - סוחרי גומי ואחרים. מחזות 3 - יסורי איוב ואחרים. מחזות 4 - מלאכת החיים ואחרים. מחזות 5 - הזונה מאוהיו ואחרים. מחזות 6 - משפט אונס ואחרים. מחזות 7 - ההולכים בחושך ואחרים. מחזות 8 - מתאבל ללא קץ ואחרים. מחזות 9 - הנאחזים ואחרים. מחזות 10 - אשכבה ואחרים. עוד בכתבי לוין: פרוזה 1 - החולה הנצחי והאהובה. פרוזה 2 - איש עומד מאחורי אשה יושבת. סידרת מערכונים ופזמונים 1 - מה איכפת לציפור. מערכונים ופזמונים 2 - הג'יגולו מקונגו. סידרת שירים - חיי המתים.
332 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1994
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About the author
Hanoch Levin
55 books11 followersHanoch Levin (1943-1999), one of Israel`s leading dramatists, was born in Tel Aviv. He grew up in a religious home in the Neve Shaanan neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv. As a child, he attended the Yavetz State Religious School. In the 1950s, his brother, David, who was nine years older than him, worked as an assistant director at the Cameri Theater. Hanoch attended Zeitlin Religious High School in Tel Aviv. After ninth grade, he left school to help support the family. He worked as a messenger boy for the Herut company and took classes at a night school for working youth at the Ironi Aleph middle school. There he joined a drama club. After serving his compulsory military duty, Levin began to study philosophy and Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University (1964-1967).
At first he wrote poetry, but later concentrated on the theater. He became resident playwright of the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and also worked with Habimah, Israel`s national theater.
Levin wrote 50 plays, 34 of which have been staged. His work includes comedies, tragedies and satiric cabarets, most of which he directed himself. In addition, he published five books of short stories and poems and a book for children. He received numerous theater awards both in Israel and abroad - most notably at the Edinburgh Festival -and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994.
At first he wrote poetry, but later concentrated on the theater. He became resident playwright of the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and also worked with Habimah, Israel`s national theater.
Levin wrote 50 plays, 34 of which have been staged. His work includes comedies, tragedies and satiric cabarets, most of which he directed himself. In addition, he published five books of short stories and poems and a book for children. He received numerous theater awards both in Israel and abroad - most notably at the Edinburgh Festival -and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994.
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July 2, 2025
There is something almost cruel in how precisely Hanoch Levin captures the human spirit – its filth and futility, its desperate grasp for meaning, its naked yearning for something more. In The Gigolo from Congo, Levin leads us through a world so bleak it becomes almost comic, or perhaps so comic it becomes unbearably bleak.
His characters dream – of distant lands, of exotic pleasures, of grand love affairs, of a life that means something. But deep down, they know: they will never get there.
The dreams themselves become part of the tragedy.
Levin's genius lies in this unbearable tension – between the grotesque and the sublime, between the laughable and the utterly heart-breaking.
His writing, razor-sharp and unflinching, peels the skin off bourgeois fantasy to expose the soft, sad underbelly of our condition. It is not just theatre. It is existential vivisection.
His characters dream – of distant lands, of exotic pleasures, of grand love affairs, of a life that means something. But deep down, they know: they will never get there.
The dreams themselves become part of the tragedy.
Levin's genius lies in this unbearable tension – between the grotesque and the sublime, between the laughable and the utterly heart-breaking.
His writing, razor-sharp and unflinching, peels the skin off bourgeois fantasy to expose the soft, sad underbelly of our condition. It is not just theatre. It is existential vivisection.
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