כורסת השיש

by Yehonatan Geffen, יהונתן גפן

יוריק לב, קולנוען לשעבר, מבקר קולנוע לשעבר, נשוי לשעבר, איכר בכפר לשעבר, עוזב הכול ונותן לזה לקרות בלונדון. מחפש חיים חדשים, אך תמונות העבר רודפות אחריו, כשהוא מנסה לכתוב את חייו הישנים על מנת להשתחרר מהם.

אחרי החוויה הישראלית הצפופה והאידיאליסטית, יוריק לב מנסה חיים חדשים, ריקים ובודדים, כשידידו היחידי הוא רופא שיניים הומוסקסואל, שהוא גם הקורא הראשון של הרומן שהוא כותב. יוריק מספר את סיפור הדור המבולבל שלו, סיפור של מצוקה וכישלונות – שלעתים מאחדים את בני האדם יותר מאושר והצלחה.

רומן מאת יונתן גפן, משורר, עיתונאי, שחקן, פזמונאי.

223 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Yehonatan Geffen (Hebrew: יהונתן גפן) was born in moshav Nahalal. He was the father of Aviv Geffen, Shira Geffen and Natasha Geffen, as well as nephew of Moshe Dayan. He had two grandsons. In 1965, he served as a paratrooper under Matan Vilnaì, and became an officer. In 1967, his mother overdosed on her medication and died. Geffen considered it to have been suicide. After his discharge from the IDF in 1969 and moving to Tel Aviv, he took up poetry. In 1972, while Geffen was studying in London, his sister Nurit committed suicide, causing him to return to Tel Aviv. During this period he began writing a column for the weekend supplement of Ma'ariv, and he joined the entertainment troupe "Lul" with Uri Zohar, Arik Einstein, and Shalom Hanoch. The latter introduced Geffen to his future wife, Nurit Makober. Geffen was often criticized for his strong left-wing leanings, which bordered on provocation, and even received death threats. He was one of a group of journalists (including Uri Dan, Yeshayahu Ben Porat, Eitan Haber, Hezi Carmel, Eli Landau, and Eli Tavor) who in 1973 published the book The Failure, the first book to document the Yom Kippur War. It criticized the performance of the government and military and also contained first-hand descriptions of battles, casualties, injuries, and the losses and failures of military hardware. The book aroused considerable public interest. Much of Geffen's success came from his works for children, like the song "HaYalda Hachi Yafa BaGan" ["The Prettiest Girl in Kindergarten"] and the book "HaKeves HaShisha Asar" [The 16th Sheep], but he has also written many popular songs, poems, plays, and stories for adults. He frequently collaborated with David Broza, rendering Spanish songs into Hebrew.