יסורי איוב ואחרים

חנוך לוין: מחזות #3

by Hanoch Levin, חנוך לוין

בכרך זה, השלישי בסדרת מחזותיו המקובצים של חנוך לוין, מובאים המחזות שכתב בשנים 1985-1979 (להוציא 'אורזי המזוודות' שמוקם בכרך הקודם): 'הוצאה להורג'; 'יסורי איוב'; 'הזונה הגדולה מבבל'; 'הנשים האבודות מטרויה'; 'כולם רוצים לחיות'. בקבוצת המחזות הזו מתרחבים גבולות המציאות הלווינית והיא מועברת מן "החצר האחורית" אל פסגות המיתוס.

הספר ראה אור לראשונה ב-1988 ונדפס מחדש במהדורת כל כתבי חנוך לוין ב-1999.

הוצאה להורג 1977
יסורי איוב 1979
הזונה הגדולה מבבל 1980
הנשים האבודות מטרויה 1981
כולם רוצים לחיות 1981

278 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Hanoch 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.